Richard LaGravenese
Richard LaGravenese
Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
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Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
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As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
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Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
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We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.
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In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.
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The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.
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My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
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TV is where a writer can write his novel.
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The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.
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Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
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A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
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There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.