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Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Importance of Storytelling

In my stand up, I had no story. And now later in life, everything I do, I'm going, what's the story? Because you can hang in there with story while you're not getting laughs. Robert Benton, the great film director and screenwriter once said to me, it's like having a nursery of crying infants. You just hope for the moment when you suddenly have only one squalling infant at a time,. That's when you're done enough to start shooting or good.

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