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" 'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew. "
Lisa Lutz
You
Performance
Chosen
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" I wouldn't say that my family is normal. "
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" I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there. "
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" I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence. "
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" I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character. "
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" For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship. "
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" I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr. "
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" I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really. "
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" I have certain rules for snooping, under which anything out in the open is fair game. "
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" Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it. "
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Powerful
Police
" Finally, I'm recognizing that rewrites aren't some cosmic punishment for childhood wrongs but the nature of the business. "
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Childhood
Punishment
Nature
" I love 'The Wire'. I can't think of a television show that I think is superior to it in any way. I was obsessed with it from the moment it came on the air. I do also love 'Doctor Who' and 'Get Smart'. "
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Think
Love
Moment
" I was on a few surveillance jobs as part of a big team. I would be the person to follow the subject on foot when the need arose. But most of the time, we were sitting in a car doing nothing. "
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Sitting
Team
Time
" I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything. "
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You
Research
Sometimes
" I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop. "
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Opportunity
Had
Private
" I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21. "
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Plan
Turned
Draft
" You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting. "
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Too
You
Suspicious
" My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up. "
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Distance
Construction
Wrinkles
" I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor. "
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Bold
Time
Serious
" Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me. "
Lisa Lutz
Money
Years
Draft
" We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet. "
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Furniture
Study
Medicine
" I could never really choose a favorite book, but whenever I'm asked what my favorite movie is, I always say 'Withnail & I,' a British film from 1987. It's funny and sad and absolutely gorgeous to look at. It's the film I can watch over and over again. "
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Sad
Say
" Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man. "
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Strength
Man
" I am a huge Mel Brooks fan. And I do think that not seeing his canon of classics is a bit criminal or clueless. "
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Criminal
I Am
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" Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you. "
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Appearance
Hair
Job
" I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate. "
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Los Angeles
Day
Family
" I learned how to cross-country ski. "
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Ski
How
Learned
" I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer. "
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Questions
Satisfied
Feel
" There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres. "
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Reason
Writer
Explore
" Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones. "
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Way
Only
" If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better. "
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You