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My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.

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I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.

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The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don't find that to be very funny.

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A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

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There are some situations in life that are simply not funny, and there's nothing funny about them, but they're rare, and they don't last all that long.

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Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

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'Margaret' as a creative entity is something that I'm very happy and proud of. But 'Margaret' as a professional experience was a nightmare until it was rescued by critics and people who liked it.

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I personally don't need to see a story about a person that starts up miserable and ends up worse.

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I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 16th, 1962

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