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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.

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John Sayles

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

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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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