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Chemistry [between people] is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.

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I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

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Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

Deadline, Impatience, Scare, Scares, Stuff

I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.

Come, Existence, Fun, Poetic, Represent, Story

Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.

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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

Architecture, Beach, Preston, Sturges, Writing

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

Great Writers, Huxley, Screenplay, Write, Writing
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