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'm Sorry, What Is That About?
There's some sneaky person on Twitter like five, ten years ago who went and found any line I'd written that was at all similar between a movie and a TV show. And they busted me. There's like a line in big love that is almost identical to a line in milk and I never would have caught it but there it is. People get a life like I'm sorry, what is that about? Oh my god. Well, that's kind of affirming in some ways to me like it's a, it's your personal thematic right like in some ways, the same stuff always shows up in our work over and over again.
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