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February 14, 2008
A Filmmaker interview with Tamara Jenkins
An interview I did with Tamara Jenkins for Filmmaker magazine was print-only until now; it's online now. It's the summary of several conversations in a couple of cities, and one of my favorite things 
the Oscar nominee offered was this about writing: "I dunno, writing is weird and lonely and makes you grumpy and strange, and it’s nice when somebody understands that. I also have a dog. That helps. Makes you go out into the world. Then your dog’s like, “Okay, I have to walk you.” There’s something about moving and thinking. A treadmill, working out, and your brain just kind of makes connections. Moving — being in cars, trains, being on treadmills, they’re all really good for the writing brain. But I haven’t written in a long time; I have to start writing. To write you really should be writing every single day to keep the muscle going. But then if you write and make a movie, the year of working on the movie goes by and then you’re supposed to start writing again and you have kind of forgotten how. So I have to start writing. I have to buy a new journal; I have to get some nice pens." [More at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at February 14, 2008 08:49 PM
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