- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of health anxiety.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.
- Graduated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated from college in 1980.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020