Getting the needed meetings to get his script for “American Beauty” actually produced [by DreamWorks] only happened some years after Alan Ball [photo] was discovered by a talent scout at Carsey-Werner Television who had seen his play, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
In a Writers Store interview, Steven Prigge [author of Created By: Inside the [...]
Entries from December 2006
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Nathalie Handal: "All that I observe, that I experience, filters itself into words."
As a poet, writer, playwright, director, and producer, Nathalie Handal articulates the primacy of words and experience in responding to an interview question about the inspiration for her poetry collection The Lives of Rain:
“To me, the world is a poem, a poem I keep writing and re-writing. All that I observe, that I experience, filters [...]
Cat Robson: "My hunger to write continues."
In spite of myself, my hunger to write continues. Like a rogue wave, determined to hold up the meaning of my life against the undertow of my culture, my past, and my family’s fundamentalism, it surges and ebbs. I want to trust it.
To be carried into the deeper waters of the things I [...]
