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" Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. "
Will
Escape
Great
" From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all. "
Parent
See
You
" I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects. "
Down
Myself
Without
" I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut. "
Go
Write
Space
" I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. "
About
Breadth
Enough
" If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. "
Humanity
Modern
Imagination
" If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment. "
Math
Women
Investment
" I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces. "
Different
Crime
Love
" I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. "
Hard
Reality
Interested
" In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly. "
Goodness
Imagination
Important
" I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity. "
Wonder
Creativity
Never
" I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made. "
Will
You
Track
" I think there are many more stories still to be told about women. "
Stories
Still
More
" It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't. "
You
Craft
Everything
" It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. "
Humbling
Healthy
Down
" It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people. "
Connections
Today
Yourself
" I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years. "
Always
Over
Writing
" My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation. "
Me
Storytelling
Animation
" My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot. "
Film
Shot
Made
" 'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks. "
Precious
Lot
Mountain
" The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. "
Crime
Brutality
Film
" There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. "
Plot
Where
Driving
" There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity. "
Much
Out
Quite
" Women have a greater verbal capacity. "
Verbal
Capacity
Greater
" You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story. "
Humanity
Live
Story
" You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut. "
Debut
Your
You
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