“Little kids grow up discovering the
world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of
shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the
important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.” – Kenneth Lonergan
Lonergan, born on this date in 1962,
started his writing career as a speechwriter for the Environmental Protection
Agency and then graduated to doing industrial scripts for such companies as
Fuji Film and Weight Watchers. Once he
got the bug for writing scripts, he went to work on plays and had his first
theatrical success with the play This Is Our Youth.
After a number of on- and
off-Broadway hits, he tried his hand at a movie script, and his gangland comedy
Analyze This was a boxoffice winner. He quickly showed he had the chops to do more,
being a major contributor to the Academy Award-nominated Gangs of New York. Since then he’s continued to be one of the
most successful Broadway and movie writers.
He said he thinks people like his work because they can identify with
his characters and have a clear understanding of what those characters are
portraying.
“I feel like if you can describe
something fully and accurately,” he said, ‘then people will be able to see it themselves
– they don't need be told what to.”
Kenneth Lonergan
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