# Interviews

Dialogues with industry veterans and a new era of artists.

Disability Representation On Stage and On Screen with Rachel Handler

Disability Representation On Stage and On Screen with Rachel Handler

... every day something comes up that we have to adapt to—the same way that on film sets, something comes up, and you’ve got to adapt or change the plan.

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10 min read

Interview: Bobby Curnow on His Journey from Intern to IDW Editor-in-Chief

Interview: Bobby Curnow on His Journey from Intern to IDW Editor-in-Chief

As he puts it, “a confidence with your own weirdness” is what sets work apart in a world overflowing with content.

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13 min read

Filming a Proof of Concept Short: An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Angela Cohen

Filming a Proof of Concept Short: An Interview with Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Angela Cohen

... the most effective use of the funds was to throw away the hope of making this really big thing in a small way and trust that if I captured the tone, world, and characters, that would be enough.

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8 min read

Below the Line: Editor and Actor Max Goldblatt

Below the Line: Editor and Actor Max Goldblatt

Those are the victories as an editor, when you get away with something that an audience would never suspect.

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11 min read

Below the Line: Camera & Steadicam Operator, Rochelle T.A. Brown

Below the Line: Camera & Steadicam Operator, Rochelle T.A. Brown

I’m not impatient when there is no need to be impatient. It helps me to have more realistic expectations.

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12 min read

The Auteur Theory: Filmmaker Jim Towns

The Auteur Theory: Filmmaker Jim Towns

... every DVD I own has director’s commentary that I probably listened to at least once. That was my film school.

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14 min read

'Perfection Intersection': An Interview with Jo Steinhart

'Perfection Intersection': An Interview with Jo Steinhart

That’s when it clicked: filmmaking is the perfect intersection of all of my interests.

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5 min read

Interview: Author Isabel Peña Alfaro on Self-Publishing

Interview: Author Isabel Peña Alfaro on Self-Publishing

It's been all kinds of responses, but that's why I had that little pebble in my shoe—we don't talk about mental health as much as we can, or normalize it.

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8 min read

Interview: Joanne Sarazen—From Playwright to Screenwriter

Interview: Joanne Sarazen—From Playwright to Screenwriter

... the thing about screenwriting that's interesting is that everybody wants to talk about what you're doing, like, four years after you did it.

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5 min read

Moments of Magic: Writer LaDarrion Williams and the Conjuring of 'Blood at the Root'

Moments of Magic: Writer LaDarrion Williams and the Conjuring of 'Blood at the Root'

It’s great to have big dreams, but we need little dreams along the way ...

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38 min read

Full Circle: From Lollapalooza to Lolla—Director Michael John Warren

Full Circle: From Lollapalooza to Lolla—Director Michael John Warren

These ideas haunt me and the only way to get them out is to put them down.

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7 min read

The Nuance of War: An Interview with Darren Haruo Rae

The Nuance of War: An Interview with Darren Haruo Rae

This story is bigger than just my grandfather and the 442nd, it is about the 120,000 Americans who were punished simply because of their ethnicity and how each person responded to it.

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5 min read

Michael Nilon's Elongated Journey to Arcadian

Michael Nilon's Elongated Journey to Arcadian

But as I got a little bit older, I wanted to write more. I'd visit sets. I’d watch. I'd think, ‘I could that.’ I saw the evolution of my career.

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6 min read

The Multi-Hyphenate Opportunity: An Interview with Graham Reznick

The Multi-Hyphenate Opportunity: An Interview with Graham Reznick

... you need to discover new ways of telling stories, try out new and different kinds of writing, go out on a limb and try something crazy in a discipline you’ve never done before.

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13 min read

'Undeniable' North Star: An Interview with P.J. Palmer

'Undeniable' North Star: An Interview with P.J. Palmer

... don’t write what scares you, write what will change your life. And I took that as meaning: be vulnerable, tell your truth, even if it alters how people see you.

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6 min read
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