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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Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
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I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
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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.
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TV is where a writer can write his novel.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.