“Feeling completely lost is absolutely necessary to finding your way out [of the dark forest] and becoming good.” Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) This American Life producer Last week Screenwriter John August launched the podcast Launch. It’s a creative way of exploring his getting lost in the woods as a six-year-old, through the inspiration and publication process of his new book Arlo Finch in […]
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“Feeling completely lost is absolutely necessary to finding your way out [of the dark forest] and becoming good.” Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) This American Life producer Last week Screenwriter John August launched the podcast Launch. It’s a creative way of exploring his getting lost in the woods as a six-year-old, through the inspiration and publication process of his new book Arlo Finch in […]
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One thing I learned from my experience writing scripts with Noah Baumbach for two movies, is that he’s relentless about trying to get it right on the page, because you only answer to yourself during that period of time, so you can really make it as perfect as possible. I don’t do any improvisation, and I don’t […]
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Here’s writer/director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) hitting on a theme that’s been central to this blog for ten years. I’m interested in cinema representing places that don’t usually get representation. I think cinema is one of the better documenters of place. When I go to movie theaters and I see a world that I haven’t […]
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“I wanted to make something set in Sacramento, because I am from Sacramento and I love it. I had the idea of wanting to make a love story between a mother and a daughter, but the line I actually started with was the moment in college when someone says, ‘Where are you from?’ and she […]
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“I wanted to make something set in Sacramento, because I am from Sacramento and I love it. I had the idea of wanting to make a love story between a mother and a daughter, but the line I actually started with was the moment in college when someone says, ‘Where are you from?’ and she […]
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“I have a theatrical temperament…. I think it comes out of being a ‘daughter of the Golden West.’ A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions-leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways-those people […]
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“Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” Dory in Finding Nemo While today won’t be the release of the book based on this blog, I’m getting closer to a release date. And since today is the 10th anniversary of starting this blog, I thought I’d at least share with you the artwork done by Predrag Capo for […]
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“The way that I conceptually looked at it was I wanted it to be one person’s coming of age is another person’s letting go. With just as much attention on the letting go side of it, as the coming of age side of it.” Greta Gerwig on writing Lady Bird WTF with Marc Maron podcast interview […]
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Yeah, what he said… Related post: Don’t Try and Complete with Hollywood—Edward Burns Shooting a Feature Film in 4 Days (Joe Swanberg) The Best Film School (Robert Rodriguez) Scott W. Smith
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