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You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.
With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.
Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
