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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don’t feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, ‘action,’ so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

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Action Free Point

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

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AgeLoveMusic

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened – but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

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MoviesPersonal Writer

I don’t think people are ever going to a place where they’re like, ‘I’m over stories about character and love.’

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LoveCharacter Stories

I love actors.

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Love

People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

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Characters Remember

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you’re going to get true eclectic music programmed.

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MusicMean True

I’ve been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I’m just really grateful.

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Grateful Signings Talking

‘Elizabethtown’ was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It’s not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in ‘Elizabethtown.’ It wasn’t, like, a savage blow.

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Biggest Group Reasons

It’s more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren’t formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who’ve told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

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Personal Spirit Stories

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it’s balanced.

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GoodBalanced Fun

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

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MoviesDefinitely Loved

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

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FutureLifeEverybody

People dance and we have a lot of music and… this might be the closet I get for a while.

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MusicDance Might

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

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Energy Ideas Talking
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