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Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Benny Safdie is known for defying expectations and using his sense of humor to make a splash. He even once show...
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Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Benny Safdie is known for defying expectations and using his sense of humor to make a splash. He even once show...

"We try to answer two questions before we say yes to a job or embark on a spec script: Why does the protagonist need this movie? And the oth...

"I didn't think I'd be a good fit as a writer if they were going to do a PG version of the story. That's not where my strength lies, so the...

"I love adaptations. The beauty of adaptation, especially a classic, like Shakespeare and Chekhov or Ibsen, they're such a gift because they...

"As you do draft after draft, it becomes shorter and rendered down. And [Keanu Reeves and I] would go through scenes going, 'Can people say...

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." –Otto Von Bismarck "It's funny, because when I was writing A...

"[My dad] really started to inhabit the characters, especially Ray, speaking as him during the writing process. That was when I realized thi...

"You have to love all your characters. Even if you're writing a bad guy. You, the writer, have to write them with love and empathy, and trea...

On today's episode, we speak with director Joe Wright whose new limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century , explores fascism through t...

"The thing that started it all off was me saying [the character Toxie] should be a guy in a suit. In other words, let's not do a computer-ge...

"Our goal in writing [ Sirens ] was to write something that makes you think, and offers the opportunity to re-examine your own assumptions t...

"Write your own anxieties. Get into your own psyche. I think if it scares you – like, I'm terrified of guns, and that's where The Purge came...

"Vampires hold incredible destructive power, and so we're very drawn to them, sort of like moths to a candle, right? I think that's sort of...

"One thing I've found in the crime genre is that homicides are always interesting. When somebody's killed, whatever that case may be, it's u...

"In my mind, Belle is going through life, at least our version of Belle – I've never met the real Belle – she's going through life with this...

"The most important thing that I've learned as a storyteller is that I have to treat every character in the show as though they're the lead...

"It's not ripped from the headlines. We're not using any of [the Buss family's] real-life stories and putting them into our show. Because Mi...

"It was a lot of empathizing. I would do long phone calls with Abel (Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd) after we had met, just basically talking to hi...

"Sometimes it's easier to find and access your truth through 'pretend' characters. So I had this embarrassment of riches of this true story...

"For me, I don't know how you could not make [a script] personal. I think drama allows you to hide how personal it is. I think that's kind o...
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