123 | Dustin Lance Black (Milk, Under the Banner of Heaven) On Nuanced Screenwriting and Avoiding Cliches
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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How Far Can You Bend It Before Breaks?
Every artist who does true life work has to determine. What does it mean how far can you bend it before breaks because it's all fiction. And people didn't live their lives these things didn't happen in 120 minutes or 90 minutes or whatever you've got. So you're already lying. But how, how,How far can you stretch the truth or in, you know, or bend the truth before it does snap and that's up to each individual. I like to say that I want to keep people's intention pure.
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