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“I think essentially, we’re pretty lazy when it comes to communication with each other and we need to be motivated.”
writer/director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine)

Up until six years ago I had lived my entire life in Florida and California so I looked at moving to Iowa in 2003 as a great adventure. Similar to moving [...]

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Since Diablo Cody is my poster child (female) for a screenwriter coming from outside L.A. (and the original inspiration for this blog)  then I think I’ll name Lawrence Kasden as the poster child (male) screenwriter from outside L.A. Kasden was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. Quick, name another screenwriter from West Virginia.
(While Morgantown is the [...]

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“During the 1920s, at the height of his fame and literary power, Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was more than a bestselling author. He was a troublemaker, a disturber of the peace whose novels were hotly discussed as social criticism more than literature.”
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“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?”
                                         Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)
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 “I think when people come here they really feel the power of the land, which transcends beautifully on film.”
                                             Robin Lambaria, Marfa Film Festival founder
 
At the 2008 Academy Awards two of the films nominated [...]

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“There’s enough land here (Florida) to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”
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“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.“
                                                                    Maj. Gen. William T. [...]

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Tender Mercies was filmed in Texas in the Waxahachie area with mainly Texas crews.
                                                               Horton Foote, Texas-born screenwriter
                                                               Tender Mercies, A Trip to Bountiful
I was born and raised in Texas in a family with 10 brothers and sisters. I was a daydreamer and bored at school, so I’d [...]

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“Three years ago I was living in Vegas as the night manager of the Mirage Hotel tram line.”
                                                            Anthony Zuiker
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“From Iowa to Pennsylvania, the presidential campaign has provided its share of made-for-Hollywood moments.”
                                                                                  All Things [...]

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