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" At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. "
Natural
People
Stories
" But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. "
Talk
Side
Me
" But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. "
Klan
Being
Doing
" Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. "
Me
Best
Day
" Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad. "
Trying
Own
Feel
" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "
Everybody
Together
Film
" Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle. "
System
Film
Get
" Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work. "
Think
Tough
People
" I consider myself a social justice person. "
Person
Justice
Myself
" I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. "
Me
Going
Like
" I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly. "
Only
Step
Say
" If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. "
Four
Looking
Interview
" I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. "
Anxiety
Happy
People
" I just don't think I'm very good at fiction. "
Fiction
Think
Just
" I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. "
Feel Good
Good
Looking
" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "
Type
Call
Fearless
" In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. "
Place
God
Voice
" In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. "
You
Patience
Empathy
" I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! "
Example
Admire
Beautiful
" I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. "
Feel
Journalism
Facts
" I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. "
Happened
Way
Surprised
" Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. "
Over
Two
Who
" Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. "
Privilege
Sin
Worst
" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "
Smooth
Entry
Screenwriting
" My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. "
Now
Time
Paranoid
" No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. "
Need
Home
Moment
" Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. "
Me
Bad
Trying
" Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. "
Possible
Try
True
" Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. "
Stop
Like
Over
" Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face. "
Women
Culture
Racism
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