“The director I learned the most from was Clint Eastwood. And I learned many, many things from him. He is an absolute master and he would not ever want to do more than four takes. Now, uh, you work with some directors who will do 20 takes. He would only do four....
“Read as much as you can, even things that you don’t like. But it’s really important to be a reader. So many people want to be writers and they think they can just skip over that part to give a devoted study to literature in order to actually be a...
“Criticism can be a real help. Not always, but if it’s helpful criticism, who says it, what they say, and where I like to take that criticism.” ~Gabby Gruen Gabby Gruen is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He has been a writer and producer...
“You know, every time that you hear somebody who is happy with what they’re doing or you think, if I do that, I’m going to sell books or if I do that, not necessarily, uh, you have to do what works for you because if you don’t love it,...
“This is a really rough business. You’ll get rejections if you stop because you got a rejection or somebody else says, don’t do this. Most agents, if they don’t want your work, they’ll say something like, uh, it doesn’t meet my...
