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I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing. Ken Hill
Work Creative Song Composing Come Ideas Up Very Currently Really
The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences. Ken Hill
Life Music My Life About More Write New Experiences
Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion. Ken Hill
Song Sometime Emotion Write Instead Idea Off Central
The most important thing is that you like the music. Ken Hill
Music You Important Like Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Thing
Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time. Ken Hill
Time Hooks Same Same Time Predictable Need
Music is about textures as well as melody. Ken Hill
Music Melody About Well Textures
People don't have fun making music all the time. Ken Hill
Music Time People Have Fun Making Fun Fun Making
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
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