Movers and Shakers & It Starts With the Script by Maddi Wright

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:18:08 UTC

"I think you can make a really good movie and it doesn't have to cost that much."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:19:15 UTC

"It's not just about the dollar...I think it's about longevity."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:23:57 UTC

"But when you're in and you're in day seventy or seventy-five, whatever, and you're seeing that the work he is doing and sitting next to him at a monitor every day, one also can't help but be carried away with the beauty of what you're making."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:27:56 UTC

"If they were feeling their way around the scene in the morning and wanted to make adjustments to the script, we gave him the time to have Sorkin come down or work with him and make changes on the fly a little bit in almost an improvisational way."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:28:30 UTC

"It's hard not to read your own life into material sometimes, because you find that what moves you is something that you relate to." I've experience this many times while co-writing a passion project with a close friend of mine.

"It's about producer and director knowing each other's boundaries and having the chemistry."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:35:06 UTC

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:37:28 UTC

"The producing relationship, the more you know the person gets better."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:39:13 UTC

"I think every film has its own life, and I think it's very hard to have a set of rules across the board that come on every movie."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:52:24 UTC

"Time is more emotional than chronological."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:53:23 UTC

"It was essentially written from a place of I knew everything that I was writing."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:56:26 UTC

"I gave myself the gift of writing it really long, just because I knew I would be directing it and I wanted to digest the words, every scene." This is very relatable as someone who writes planning to direct.

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 01:58:34 UTC

"...DreamWorks to let me cast my friends who are talented and for it to work and-- It's just been, it's been really cool."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:00:01 UTC

"To be truly fearless as an actor, it's being willing to do nothing and just be still and quiet and let what's behind your eyes tell the story."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:11:32 UTC

"For me, it's about tone. Pathos and humor and the tone I'm going to establish."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:12:14 UTC

"I usually go into a very intense sort of lockdown."

"The characters start talking to me and the story starts."

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:13:41 UTC

This was the main quote that stood out to me because my screenwriting is almost always mainly character oriented.

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:14:41 UTC

"Try being...as far away from writing in final draft as I could, to be just as wild as I could be."

Collaboration

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:16:30 UTC

Learning Experience

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-13 02:16:44 UTC

Learning from my peers

maddiwright10001 — 2025-02-15 05:03:39 UTC