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I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

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John Sayles

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

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I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

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We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe. ' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.

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As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

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To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good. '

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