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When I tell people I'm a screenwriter, people think I'm automatically artistic, but hell no. I like being part of a team, and I like having a skill that the team values. It's like laying bricks, and I try to be the best bricklayer I can.

~Stephen Mcfeely

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Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

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Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.

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Telling a story inherently has bias because of perspective and the way the story is told.

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Even the best documentary has somebody's bias.

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Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that.

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The thing about Steve Rogers, again and again, is sacrifice.

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Anytime you tell a story about someone who has made a hard, fast decision, if you're telling an honest story, over time that hard, fast decision is probably gonna become opaque, and they are going to see the downsides of the choices they've made.

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You can work very hard on a crappy movie.

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I am fairly obsessive compulsive.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: Unknown

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