# Interviews

Dialogues with industry veterans and a new era of artists.

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

Running a Crowdfunding Campaign: An Interview with Liz Manashil

Running a Crowdfunding Campaign: An Interview with Liz Manashil

It’s scary, it’s dramatic, and it puts a lot of pressure on a campaign, but it also incentivizes people in a different way because they know you’ll lose everything.

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9 min read

An Interview with Writers Nilanjana Bose and Jakub Ciupinski

An Interview with Writers Nilanjana Bose and Jakub Ciupinski

“How do you guys write together and stay married?” ... the only arguments we have in our marriage are about the motivations of our character.

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13 min read

Author & Screenwriter Katharyn Blair—The Burden of Glorious Purpose

Author & Screenwriter Katharyn Blair—The Burden of Glorious Purpose

“Write something you care about, then find out why afterwards.”

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9 min read

Below the Line: Makeup Artist Nicki Ledermann

Below the Line: Makeup Artist Nicki Ledermann

You can be the best makeup artist in the world, but if you don't get along with people and can't read the trailer, the room, the atmosphere, the actor … If you don't have that, then you will never make it in the film business.

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12 min read

The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan

The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan

... desperation can kick in—you chase “what’s popular” rather than staying true to your creative vision.

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18 min read
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