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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

163 | Screenwriting: Joy, Pain, Legacy (2023 Guest Supercut Pt. 2)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In our time time-honored tradition of asking the same three questions at the end of every show, we wanted to put together a supercut of some great guest responses to be enjoyed in one fell swoop. New episodes Featured in today's supercut: - Nora Twomey - Eirene Tran Donohue - Constanza and Domenica Castro - Allison Tolman - Dustin Lance Black - Dana Stevens - Jeremy Doner - Joe Robert Cole - Kelly Edwards - John Lee Hancock - Jane Anderson - Julia Cho and Domee Shi - Rafael Casal - Kelly Fremon Craig - Charlie Day JOIN OUR PATREON: www.patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey all, as promised, here's part two of our final three questions supercut featuring TSL

0:07.7

guests.

0:08.7

And as always, if you want to know who you're listening to, you can check in the description of the episode below and we're back this

0:14.7

Thursday with new episodes so make sure you tune in but until then enjoy.

0:18.2

What brings you the most joy when it comes to directing?

0:27.0

Hmm, seeing that spark in somebody's face when they really get something and they know that you're going they're

0:35.1

going to take it far you know into something that you're you're good jealous

0:39.7

of I get this good jealous feeling you know when somebody just is brilliant and you're thinking,

0:44.9

damn it I wish I could do that it's incredible I wish I had done that but they've done it and it's just

0:50.4

amazing and now it can't be done again because you've done it.

0:53.9

But it's just a I love that. I mean I get the good jealous feeling

0:58.1

that's when I know that yeah that things are really really amazing. I've had that several times on this on this production which is just incredible. Yeah.

1:08.6

Flip side of this question is of course what pisses you off about directing?

1:15.5

Oh, what pisses me off about directing I won't say it pisses me off but I what is a part of the, and I don't know whether it because I'm like a

1:26.3

studio owner and a director that maybe it's unique to that kind of a setup, but I do find myself,

1:32.0

especially in the last year of production where I know what's important. The face and the center of the screen is important. Whether the hand and the side of the screen grows and shrinks a little bit because the animator, you know, might not pay that much attention to it, but we have this amount of time, this amount of money left or whatever.

1:48.0

I like I always go for like what's the important thing and the scene is that working then that's great let's go with that

1:54.1

so I'm often the person in the room saying actually that's not important you know when somebody says that hand is like you know

2:00.1

giggling or it's not working right or whatever.

2:07.2

So that's I suppose the surprising thing about directing. It's not like, let's strive for the best that we can be.

2:09.4

It's like, yeah, that doesn't really matter.

2:11.8

So let's just like go with the face let's not spend

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