Danny Strong Quotes
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My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
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I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
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I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!
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I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.
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Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.
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I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.
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I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.
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I had written four scripts before I wrote Recount. Each one progressed my career a little bit, but I didn't make a dime off any of them. Recount was the first thing I sold, and I actually sold it as a pitch to HBO. They bought it as a pitch, which was a miracle. I thought, "Wow, this could be the last time I'll be paid to write a script again, which would be too bad because that was an amazing experience I just had."
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I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
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I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
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The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
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Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.
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Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.
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It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States.
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My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
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To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.
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I think I've had my fill of electoral law.
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I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
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I'm very political. Because I read politics every day, so I'm familiar with the world. I approach the films is I'm trying to write what is true, so that supersedes partisan spin, in my opinion. I find partisanship is a thing for cable news and newspaper articles, but it's not interesting for art. I think we all believe what we believe, and I don't think a film is going to change someone's mind.
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Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.
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In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.
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I started writing when I was 26, so I don't even know what year that was. I wrote a script for me to star in. A friend of mine, who was an actor that I would compete against a lot, had written a script and was taking all these meetings. He just kept pushing me and was like, "You got to do it. You're going to love it!" He's a very successful screenwriter now. His name is Michael Bacall and he wrote 21 Jump Street, Project X, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. So it was a few factors.
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I took a lot of writing courses.
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I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
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I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
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Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.
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Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.
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I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
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I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."
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