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I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.
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Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered niche and only appealing to women. This is to an extent still true, and what it does is represent movies about women as less profitable.
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The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don't have to contend with in editing.
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Friendships have been such an important part of my life both emotionally and logistically.
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I started really idolizing people like Nicole Holofcener and Whit Stillman.
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Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.
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I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.
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When you're watching a Bond movie, if there's a violent death, there's something about cleverly chosen twists, or what props are used, or some way that he's doing something that feels like an ironic twist, that feels like it gives the audience permission to enjoy watching it and to enjoy watching something that's otherwise just brutality.
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Macro humor is just a person being themselves in a situation, saying whatever they're going to say, and it's funny because of the situation and who they are, or they say something, and it's just so them.
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You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.
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I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.
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It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.
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