“After the show, one of the women came up to me and she said, I don’t know if you remember, last year my father fell off a bench during your show. And I actually did remember. I thought, was he all right. She says…he was fine. He fell off the bench...
“Mark Gunn: Writing a competent screenplay is going to bore them. You have to have surprises….You have to try things. You have to take big swings, because competence isn’t enough. Brian Gunn: The phrase that we probably quote more than any other....
“But I think the trick to it is that you’ve got to write every day, and you’ve got to be disciplined about it. You can’t skip a day because I’m without a doubt prone to procrastination, as indicated by my ten years in between my first and...
“I always tell everybody, if you’re going to go see a Shakespeare play, it’s like an opera, read a summary of the play so at least you know the story. So you have to go in there prepared because Shakespeare was writing for an audience who knew the...
“It took me a long time to learn this, and, you know, I honestly was very bad at this, but I did finally learn this idea of asking for something. And it is amazing how if you are clear on what you want and what you are asking somebody of, and this could be like,...
