Sorkin: My very first movie was A Few Good Men, which was an adaptation of my play. There was an executive on the movie who gave me a note: “If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren’t going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?” I said the obvious answer: Women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise.
That is hilarious.
Almodovar: When I’m not writing or directing, I’m promoting. This is how I summarize my life. So many of the ideas I have come when I am flying or even in a taxi … when I’m in movement, going from somewhere to somewhere.
Black: That’s the challenge with these real-life stories, which a lot of us have done. Lives aren’t lived by Aristotle’s poetics. They’re not. They’re not necessarily in those acts. So for me, I get all these wonderful, interesting things that I learn about people, and I put them all on note cards. And then I have this very small table in my house and I arrange them into something that fits … I love the constraint of the counter because it makes it so that it will fit into a movie. If you’ve found that spine, hopefully at the end of the day you have a movie instead of just a timeline.
I should try this method.
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