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Kenneth Lonergan
American
Playwright
Born:
Oct 16
,
1962
Life
Me
People
Think
Writing
You
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It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
Kenneth Lonergan
Character
Become
Adult
Flaw
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
Kenneth Lonergan
Art
You
Communication
People
Communicate
Seen
Pain
Other
Pleasure
Failing
Like
Beyond
Itself
Very
Any
Human
Want
Succeeding
Means
Your
Professional
Film
Profound
Filmmaking
Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.
Kenneth Lonergan
Moving On
Good
Me
You
Yourself
People
Wonderful
Think
Bootstraps
About
Something
Guys
More
Shame
Recovering
Inspiring
Wrong
Feel
Like
Make
Redeeming
Isolated
Up
Movies
Moving
Themselves
Sentimental
Really
Your
Less
Many
Pull
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Building
Realistic
State
Latter
Seeing
Empire
Empire State
New
Although
Without
Shoot
York
New York
Much
Less
Starbucks
Film
I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
Kenneth Lonergan
Life
Time
You
Real Life
Enough
Dramatic
Seeing
Compression
Could
Write
Like
Make
Without
Always
Real
Been
Just
Movie
Which
Interested
Interesting
Enhanced
Event
Enhancing
Play
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
Kenneth Lonergan
Myself
People
Writing
Care
Other
Find
About
Taking
Trying
Often
Each
I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
People
Will
See
Able
Something
Feel
Like
Accurately
Themselves
Then
Fully
Describe
Need
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.
Kenneth Lonergan
Writing
Nothing
Wrong
Idea
Like
Without
Caught
Still
Dialogue
Quite
Movies
I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
Kenneth Lonergan
Home
Hero
Thought
Other
Lobby
Final
Seven
Once
Out
Variations
Wrote
Well
Version
Versions
Very
Sitting
Different
Which
Turned
Produced
Play
Published
Desk
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
Kenneth Lonergan
Medium
Bit
Television
TV
Still
Up
Going
Grew
Movies
Them
Watching
Resistant
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Yourself
World
Important
Become
Important Things
Past
Think
Teenager
Bit
Kids
Kind
See
More
Point
Discovering
Up
Than
Get
Little
Little Bit
Them
Then
Little Kids
Shown
Grow
Grow Up
Shrinks
Things
Very often what will happen between actors is that they'll develop kind of a ghost relationship in real life that reflects their relationship on screen or in the play that they're doing. In fact, I'd say that happens almost every time. I don't know why that happens, but it seems very common.
Kenneth Lonergan
Life
Time
Relationship
Will
Real Life
Every
Every Time
On-Screen
Say
Ghost
Kind
Seems
Fact
Develop
Almost
Between
Know
Real
Doing
Very
Reflects
Often
Common
Screen
In Fact
Happen
Happens
Actor
Why
Play
If you're going to make a statement, I think you should write it in prose and make a statement. If you have characters who are mouthpieces for a point of view, then you have to be very clever about disguising it.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Clever
Think
Statement
Characters
About
Point
Point Of View
Write
Prose
Make
Very
Going
Then
Should
View
Who
Sometimes films have no rehearsals - you don't have real rehearsals on the set because the day is so dominated by the schedule.
Kenneth Lonergan
Day
You
Sometimes
Films
Schedule
Because
Real
Dominated
Rehearsals
Set
You're thinking about the physical consequences about what you're writing if you're going to direct it. If you're not going to direct it, then it's somebody else's problem, and they'll solve it.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Writing
Problem
Somebody
Thinking
Consequences
Else
Solve
Physical
About
Direct
Going
Then
I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times. We used two storyboards in 'Margaret': one for the bus accident and for the opera sequence at the end.
Kenneth Lonergan
Myself
Great
Accident
Think
Enough
Draw
Only
Opera
Couple
Well
Well Enough
End
Times
Bus
Them
Used
Sequence
Actually
Margaret
Two
I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
Kenneth Lonergan
Work
Writing
Way
Written
Lot
Very
Improvising
Scripts
Much
Hard
Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.
Kenneth Lonergan
You
Hide
Walk
Demanding
Stage
Out
Scene
Write
Feel
Like
Well
Because
Real
Camera
Very
Anyone
Happening
Turn
Show
Actor
Ever
Nowhere
To me, 'director's cut' means that what was released before was somebody else's cut. That, to me, always implies that what was released wasn't what the director wanted.
Kenneth Lonergan
Me
Director
Somebody
Before
Else
Released
Implies
Always
Wanted
Cut
Means
'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'
Kenneth Lonergan
Me
You
Took
Count
Had
Days
Shoot
Margaret
The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.
Kenneth Lonergan
Life
Me
My Life
Seen
Only
Often
Theater
Movies
Mean
Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.
Kenneth Lonergan
Alone
People
Behavior
Show Off
Else
Consider
Way
Admirable
Some
Someone
Adolescent
Generally
Another
Another Way
Off
Very
Human
Being
Human Behavior
Wanting
Being Alone
Means
Aspect
Show
Connect
Connecting
I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.
Kenneth Lonergan
Time
Me
Key
Remember
First
Nice
Back
Bit
Melodrama
Broke
Response
Girlfriend
Tendency
Take
Had
Remember When
Toward
She
First Time
Hand
Off
Up
Very
Person
Apartment
Little
Little Bit
Chain
Nice Person
Serious
Her
My personal pride is not strong enough to make me brave. But I don't know why I equate being brave with fighting.
Kenneth Lonergan
Me
Strong
Pride
Fighting
Enough
Know
Make
Equate
Personal
Brave
Being
Why
Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.
Kenneth Lonergan
Business
About
Naive
Know
Sound
Truthfully
Mean
Much
Film
Film Business
'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.
Kenneth Lonergan
Creative
Happy
Experience
People
Critics
Something
Entity
Liked
Until
Proud
Very
Rescued
Who
Professional
Margaret
Nightmare
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