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
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.
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.
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.
audition monologues selling tired
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.
tv writer
TV is where a writer can write his novel.
commit effects finished gotten months room sequence shots soon visual
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.
believe best chose dedicated freedom represents school serve teacher teachers writer
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.
voices
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!
days early friend funny great guy married mine neil night
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.
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.
dad nights worked
My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.