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AUGUST MAN Interview 2014
Q: Only when reading a Details interview did I discover you wrote the script for Stoker. What was it like moving from actor to screenwriter?
If you*d told me years ago that one day I*d be writing screenplays, I don*t think I would*ve believed you. But once I got started, it didn*t take long to find my footing. There were certain things I just automatically knew how to do, like as far as the actual process of putting a script and a story together, thanks to the years I spent studying scripts as an actor.
Q: What is the process of writing like for you?
If it*s a story originating with me, I usually have to wait until I feel it burning under my skin. Then I*ll sit down to write, let things unfold at their own pace. If it*s something I*ve been hired to write I have to take a more disciplined approach. Obviously. Because there*s a deadline to meet.
Q: I really enjoyed the film and was intrigued by the intensity and dark undercurrent of the storyline. What inspired the story?
What I wrote and what made it to the screen are two different things. So I can only speak to my original draft. The inspiration was "The Stepfather" with Terry O*Quinn and Alfred Hitchcock*s "Shadow Of A Doubt." Spliced together with some vampire mythology. I remember being really intrigued by the idea of these two very unique individuals -"India" and "Uncle Charlie" - out of sync with the world around them, then finding each other. And for this brief moment, feeling like maybe they weren*t totally alone.
Q: Is it an indication of a dark and intense side of you?
It*s probably safe to say there*s a part of me in every character I*ve ever played and everything I*ve ever written. Dialed up or down several notches as required. For me the creative process has to be personal. Or personalized. I don*t know any other way to go about it. I*m impressed by actors who try to "disappear" into a role, but I*m moved by actors who make me feel like they*re revealing something about themselves, like who they are as people, onscreen and onstage. Who make themselves vulnerable. Because they*re also making themselves relatable. I think that*s a deep part of what we*re responding to as an audience when we watch actors perform.
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AUGUST MAN Interview 2014
Q: Only when reading a Details interview did I discover you wrote the script for Stoker. What was it like moving from actor to screenwriter?
If you*d told me years ago that one day I*d be writing screenplays, I don*t think I would*ve believed you. But once I got started, it didn*t take long to find my footing. There were certain things I just automatically knew how to do, like as far as the actual process of putting a script and a story together, thanks to the years I spent studying scripts as an actor.
Q: What is the process of writing like for you?
If it*s a story originating with me, I usually have to wait until I feel it burning under my skin. Then I*ll sit down to write, let things unfold at their own pace. If it*s something I*ve been hired to write I have to take a more disciplined approach. Obviously. Because there*s a deadline to meet.
Q: I really enjoyed the film and was intrigued by the intensity and dark undercurrent of the storyline. What inspired the story?
What I wrote and what made it to the screen are two different things. So I can only speak to my original draft. The inspiration was "The Stepfather" with Terry O*Quinn and Alfred Hitchcock*s "Shadow Of A Doubt." Spliced together with some vampire mythology. I remember being really intrigued by the idea of these two very unique individuals -"India" and "Uncle Charlie" - out of sync with the world around them, then finding each other. And for this brief moment, feeling like maybe they weren*t totally alone.
Q: Is it an indication of a dark and intense side of you?
It*s probably safe to say there*s a part of me in every character I*ve ever played and everything I*ve ever written. Dialed up or down several notches as required. For me the creative process has to be personal. Or personalized. I don*t know any other way to go about it. I*m impressed by actors who try to "disappear" into a role, but I*m moved by actors who make me feel like they*re revealing something about themselves, like who they are as people, onscreen and onstage. Who make themselves vulnerable. Because they*re also making themselves relatable. I think that*s a deep part of what we*re responding to as an audience when we watch actors perform.
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