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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I wrote like a little treatment for movie and I shared it with a friend of mine who was an actual writer writing television for young people. He said you should go write this. And I said okay, so I wrote a sample and no one liked it. I did another one. It was good enough to get me into a meeting with Paris Barclay. So he read the script and he, he didn't want to make it but he said I have an idea to make a movie about someone who he was inspired by named Pedro Zamora. That was my first job we sold it to VH one. They paid me what at the time seemed like so much money, even though it
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