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Screenwriter · Exec. Producer · Showrunner
Creator of Hulu's Tell Me Lies · Queen America
Often when people write or make movies about romances with young adults, I
think they are very flippant about it and don't take it seriously. But I
think that those friendships and romantic relationships are some of the
most important ones because they really set the stage for the rest of our
lives. If your first relationship is incredibly toxic and damaging, it can
take you years to figure out that that's not normal, and that that's not
actually how relationships are meant to be. -
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Writer · Director 1947-2024
What happens is a space is created. And maybe it’s the only space of its
kind in the world in which two absolute strangers can meet each
other on terms of absolute intimacy. I think this is what is at the heart
of the experience and why once you become a reader that you want to repeat
that experience, that very deep total communication with that invisible
stranger who has written the book that you’re holding in your
hands. And that’s why I think, in spite of everything, novels are not going
to stop being written, no matter what the circumstances. We need
stories. We’re all human beings, and it’s stories from the
moment we’re able to talk. -
Co-writer · Executive Producer · Co-showrunner of HBO’s The Sympathizer
I think it's central to the message of the show and of the book. This idea
that there's another side to every question. That's the central quandary.
There's this problem with the whole Vietnam War. It's saying to Americans,
at least put yourself on the other side, the Vietnamese side, and then
recognize that that side also has two sides and then within that, there are
further divisions. And if you do that, I think what it's proposing is that
you have to step back. It forces a sort of objectivity and humility, and it
asks you to step back and allow the bigger human questions to resonate. -
Co-writer · Executive Producer · Co-showrunner of HBO’s The Sympathizer
I think it's central to the message of the show and of the book. This idea
that there's another side to every question. That's the central quandary.
There's this problem with the whole Vietnam War. It's saying to Americans,
at least put yourself on the other side, the Vietnamese side, and then
recognize that that side also has two sides and then within that, there are
further divisions. And if you do that, I think what it's proposing is that
you have to step back. It forces a sort of objectivity and humility, and it
asks you to step back and allow the bigger human questions to resonate. -
Award-winning Screenwriters · Exec. Producers · Directors
American Rust · The Looming Tower
Capote · The Outsiders musical
We're all culpable in some way of being both good and bad, being virtuous
and also questionable at times in our own lives. And I think when you start
answering questions on either side of that too firmly, I think it allows
the audience to disconnect from it. And then you just have this sort of a
good and bad guy narrative that is oversimplified all too often in our
culture. I think viewers will relate to this nature versus nurture versus
DNA, raising all the questions of psychological and biological inheritance. -
Award-winning Screenwriters · Exec. Producers · Directors
American Rust · The Looming Tower
Capote · The Outsiders musical
We're all culpable in some way of being both good and bad, being virtuous
and also questionable at times in our own lives. And I think when you start
answering questions on either side of that too firmly, I think it allows
the audience to disconnect from it. And then you just have this sort of a
good and bad guy narrative that is oversimplified all too often in our
culture. I think viewers will relate to this nature versus nurture versus
DNA, raising all the questions of psychological and biological inheritance. -
Emmy Award-winning · Oscar-nominated Composer · Musician
1 0 0 1 · Silfur · Transparent · Lion
It's really like a journey from our connection with nature to where we are
now, in this moment where we're playing with technology. We're almost in
this hybrid space, not fully understanding where it's going. And it's very
deep in our subconscious and probably much greater than we realize. And it
sort of ends in this space where the consciousness of what we're creating,
it's going to be very separate from us. And I believe that's kind of where
it's heading – the idea of losing humanity, losing touch with nature and
becoming outside of something that we have created. -
Emmy Award-winning · Oscar-nominated Composer · Musician
1 0 0 1 · Silfur · Transparent · Lion
It's really like a journey from our connection with nature to where we are
now, in this moment where we're playing with technology. We're almost in
this hybrid space, not fully understanding where it's going. And it's very
deep in our subconscious and probably much greater than we realize. And it
sort of ends in this space where the consciousness of what we're creating,
it's going to be very separate from us. And I believe that's kind of where
it's heading – the idea of losing humanity, losing touch with nature and
becoming outside of something that we have created. -
Intimacy Coordinator · Founder of Intimacy on Set
Author of Intimacy On Set Guidelines
For years, people spoke about how awkward or embarrassing it was to perform
the intimate content. And what they're speaking about is feeling horrible.
If something's awkward, that squirm, that ring in the body, it feels
embarrassing. That's actually an emotion that is not professional. That is
not allowing the actor to stay feeling listened to, heard, empowered,
autonomous. And so that they can just get on without any of those concerns
and do their job to their best ability. And that's the awareness that we
brought. So, we're saying, it is not suitable in our workplace for anybody
to feel harassed or abused. -
Intimacy Coordinator · Founder of Intimacy on Set
Author of Intimacy On Set Guidelines
For years, people spoke about how awkward or embarrassing it was to perform
the intimate content. And what they're speaking about is feeling horrible.
If something's awkward, that squirm, that ring in the body, it feels
embarrassing. That's actually an emotion that is not professional. That is
not allowing the actor to stay feeling listened to, heard, empowered,
autonomous. And so that they can just get on without any of those concerns
and do their job to their best ability. And that's the awareness that we
brought. So, we're saying, it is not suitable in our workplace for anybody
to feel harassed or abused. -
NYTimes Bestselling Author
House of Sand and Fog · The Garden of Last Days · Ghost Dogs · Townie
All creative writing is that act of reaching for the pieces to put it back
together again. And with the memoir, the essay, it's human memory. Your
memory for your own existence. With fiction, it’s a dream world where
you're reaching for the shards. Writing is a free fall into the writer's
psyche, and if you want some clarity on what you believe, just write
something sincere and emotionally naked and read it back to yourself, and
you'll see a lot of what you believe, what you think, what you fear,
regret, and desire, etc. -
NYTimes Bestselling Author
House of Sand and Fog · The Garden of Last Days · Ghost Dogs · Townie
All creative writing is that act of reaching for the pieces to put it back
together again. And with the memoir, the essay, it's human memory. Your
memory for your own existence. With fiction, it’s a dream world where
you're reaching for the shards. Writing is a free fall into the writer's
psyche, and if you want some clarity on what you believe, just write
something sincere and emotionally naked and read it back to yourself, and
you'll see a lot of what you believe, what you think, what you fear,
regret, and desire, etc. -
Award-winning Author & Filmmaker
According to Her · Solfatara · Segratario
I wondered who could be a better narrator of the story of Jesus than his
own Jewish mother? When I was young, as a European Greco-Christian, I was
aware of some of my Jewish history, but writing According to Her, I tried
to imagine the story of someone considered to be a Messiah or prophet by
some Jewish followers. What could be the genuine story of something that
really happened or was told? This led me to write a realistic novel about
how it could have been. -
Actress · Artist · Director · Producer · Writer
House M.D. · Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce · Little Bird
I have always thrown myself into everything, and that includes terrible
things, because I want to have the whole experience. Even if I know it's
going to hurt for better or for worse, that has been how I've lived my
life. And so it's given me a lot of information and allowed me to play a
lot of different roles and understand a lot of different points of view. I
think part of the beauty of being in a long-running television show is
that, in season one, you're playing the role they wrote. By season two,
they're writing the person you're playing. You start to build your voice,
and they start to merge, and so by the time you get to season three, you're
much more like full human beings having this dialogue. -
Actress · Artist · Director · Producer · Writer
House M.D. · Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce · Little Bird
I have always thrown myself into everything, and that includes terrible
things, because I want to have the whole experience. Even if I know it's
going to hurt for better or for worse, that has been how I've lived my
life. And so it's given me a lot of information and allowed me to play a
lot of different roles and understand a lot of different points of view. I
think part of the beauty of being in a long-running television show is
that, in season one, you're playing the role they wrote. By season two,
they're writing the person you're playing. You start to build your voice,
and they start to merge, and so by the time you get to season three, you're
much more like full human beings having this dialogue. -
Eisner Award-nominated Comic Book Author KYLE HIGGINS
Emmy-nominated Producer KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon
Man
So, as we started talking and going through what this could look like. What
a new black superhero in 2024 could look like? What would the threats be?
What the world might look like if it's maybe not even five minutes in the
future? I would argue it's like two and a half minutes in the future. And
then what kind of really complex, emotionally layered journey we could put
this character through? -
Eisner Award-nominated Comic Book Author KYLE HIGGINS
Emmy-nominated Producer KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon
Man
So, as we started talking and going through what this could look like. What
a new black superhero in 2024 could look like? What would the threats be?
What the world might look like if it's maybe not even five minutes in the
future? I would argue it's like two and a half minutes in the future. And
then what kind of really complex, emotionally layered journey we could put
this character through? -
Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Executive Producer · Director
Tokyo Vice · Six Feet Under · Tales of the City · My So-Called Life
I think all great work comes from the need to say something. And so this is
the challenge for young artists and also maybe one of the essential
elements that can never be completely taken over by AI because there has to
be something you feel has not been said, and you feel an urgent need to say
it. In fact, you can't not say it. That need to express is what gives birth
to unique expression, which is where all of our visual, performance, and
creative arts come from.
