“ My friend Anthony McCarten, he wrote The Theory of Everything, he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic. I was telling him about the story of my house and there was a guy who had this duel and all this crazy stuff that had happened back in the early 1800s. And...
“ January 6th, I was up in the inauguration tower filming the breaking of the police line. I’m not gonna trust the feds or the protestors/rioters to tell me what happened. And so I saw them streaming into the building and I had a moment where I was like,...
“It’s interesting, I had a friend read some of the early drafts, and I’m thinking, this is a war story. I mean, It’s World War II, it’s a war story. They called up, they were almost in tears, and they said, it was the most beautiful love story...
“I’ve always been somebody who believes that if something is calling to you creatively and it feels scary and or challenging, chances are that’s what you should be doing. So in those moments when I was daunted by where the story was going, I would...
“Finish what you start. You can’t fix something that’s not done. So if you start writing a book, if you start writing a song, if you start writing a script, a play, that’s awesome. It’s gonna be terrible at first, so don’t worry...
