Diane Lake, Screenwriting
March 14th 2008 14:28
My interview with Diane Lake was refreshing and inspiring. I definitely got the sense that she takes pleasure in the process of writing.
When Diane writes she doesn’t just sit in front of her computer developing her characters and story plot points. She goes to where the characters lived to where the story took place. She experiences it first hand as a participant rather than a spectator.
She feels what her characters felt, thinks as they thought. And when she finally sits in front of the computer to write her story, Diane loses herself and the characters take over as she fills each page.
Diane is sort of new to screenwriting. After she had been teaching in New York she moved to Los Angeles because she knew she wanted to write for the movies. After three years she signed with Creative Artist Agency and got her first writing assignment, Frida.
Frida is an ideal writing gig because her story is so astonishing. Frida has a crippling accident at a young age, her first true love deserts her because of the accident, she marries a cheating, celebrated artist, and she has multiple affairs, struggles as an artist, is in constant pain, has a drinking problem and dies young.
Since Frida Diane has kept at a constant pace going to pitching meetings and writing Nancy, an original screenplay for Paramount Pictures based on the life of British aristocrat Nancy Cunrad; Picasso, a mini-series for NBC; and A Thousand Cranes, an original screenplay for Digital Domain.
When Diane writes she doesn’t just sit in front of her computer developing her characters and story plot points. She goes to where the characters lived to where the story took place. She experiences it first hand as a participant rather than a spectator.
She feels what her characters felt, thinks as they thought. And when she finally sits in front of the computer to write her story, Diane loses herself and the characters take over as she fills each page.
Diane is sort of new to screenwriting. After she had been teaching in New York she moved to Los Angeles because she knew she wanted to write for the movies. After three years she signed with Creative Artist Agency and got her first writing assignment, Frida.
Frida is an ideal writing gig because her story is so astonishing. Frida has a crippling accident at a young age, her first true love deserts her because of the accident, she marries a cheating, celebrated artist, and she has multiple affairs, struggles as an artist, is in constant pain, has a drinking problem and dies young.
Since Frida Diane has kept at a constant pace going to pitching meetings and writing Nancy, an original screenplay for Paramount Pictures based on the life of British aristocrat Nancy Cunrad; Picasso, a mini-series for NBC; and A Thousand Cranes, an original screenplay for Digital Domain.
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