Writing is so... I don't know, it's such a practice, and I feel very unpracticed in it, because I'm not doing it every day. And I really need to do it every day. In other words, you spend all this time writing a movie, and then you stop, and then you're shooting the movie, and then you're cutting, and a year and a half goes by, because in the editing room, you're not writing.
Focus group was helpful in the way it always is when you make movies, especially with anything funny. You can find the right edit or the right beat. … - Tamara Jenkins
Focus group was helpful in the way it always is when you make movies, especially with anything funny. You can find the right edit or the right beat. …
- Tamara Jenkins
I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just pr… - Tamara Jenkins
I did watching my films with an audience at the beginning when we went to Sundance and we screened The Savages there. I watched it, and I was just pr…
In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 ye… - Tamara Jenkins
In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 ye…
I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing h… - Tamara Jenkins
I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing h…
Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," a… - Tamara Jenkins
Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," a…
I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so com… - Tamara Jenkins
I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so com…
Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you can't do it as well. - Tamara Jenkins
Starting writing is stressful and scary and hard, but also, it's just like going to the gym. You're just stiff and weird, and you can't do it as well.
I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a whole different … - Tamara Jenkins
I just thought that was so interesting, that people that deal with bodies on a much more corporeal level, like the attendants, had a whole different …
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk… - Tamara Jenkins
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk…
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