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
deal god great learned love sondheim work
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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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.
both people putting time
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.
mom coffee men
When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.
character want moral
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.
real believe fighting
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.
careers waiting film
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
i-can can-do ifs
If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
character ideas issues
It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
times-are-changing film shots
I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
men journey interesting
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
character compassion interesting
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.