- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fulcrum
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the downsides of money is if there's no money, there are very few real jerks who are attached to your project. And if there is money, you do attract some very difficult, unhelpful people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest champions were Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.
- Film And TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to embrace the fact people find me divisive, but I find it remarkable. I was very disturbed by the hatred 'Damsels in Distress' received.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.
- Be Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is the small business that can hire additional employees besides the proprietor; rare is the indie-film enterprise that can be happy in this way. The norm is an unpaid principal with no employees between productions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis - and we never get to a synthesis.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020