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The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

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I wanted to try before I got too old to try to do a big movie and I'd been looking for something to do that was interesting enough to spend those two years of my life on.

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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

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The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

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Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

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You change or you hide your head in the sand.

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The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.

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Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

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I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1956

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