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I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance.

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Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that.

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I don’t really get things very… intuitively. I mean, I don’t immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

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May 3, 2024

I don’t really get things very… intuitively. I mean, I don’t immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

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May 3, 2024

Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that.

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