Word: scripting
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...more pure place," he says. "I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way." In fact, he says when he has to hit a joke in a script, he decides whether to deliver it like Matthew Perry, Ben Stiller or Will Ferrell. "There were two years before The O.C. when I was doing a Vince Vaughn impersonation in everything I did. Luckily, I wasn't good enough that anyone caught...
...very difficult question, but I think the answer has to be Fletch, because it allowed me to be myself. Fletch was the first one with me really winging it. Even though there was a script, the director allowed me to just go, and in many ways, I was directing the comedy...
...like it the same, or hate it the same.”While Fergus is open to suggestion, he puts more energy into bridging the gap between wide-open collaboration and the narrow-minded decisiveness typical of a Hollywood director.Though he allows an actor to experiment with his script and test audiences to tweak some aspect of the film, he is the head honcho when it comes to the overall outcome of his work.“If you know what you want it to be, everyone feels confident,” he says.Still, the first-time director encountered some...
...showed in Soldier of Orange in 1977. The darker material we found at that time was useless to us then. But Gerard Soeteman, who wrote both films, and I were fascinated by it, and put it to the side. It was only in 2001 that Gerard solved the script...
...movie I ♥ Huckabees? -Steve Dorshorst, Madison, Wis. No! It was horrible! It was as if somebody forgot to give the actors a script and said, For the next two hours, just go out there and do something. I saw it in the theater, and I said to my wife, "Let's wait until everyone else leaves. I don't want anyone to know I came." [Laughs.] Did you see it? Don't put yourself through...