I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
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I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
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In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
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I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.
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It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
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'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.