The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
BEAU WILLIMONFilm is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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It’s a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved – people’s ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It’s dramatic, it’s interesting, and I think it’s something we can all identify with to a degree.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they’re good notes, and they see things that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.
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In politics, it’s very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives – at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we’re all politicians.
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I don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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If you work hard and play by the rules, you’ll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won’t meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It’s the perversion of idealism.
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At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk – games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance I head over to my friend Kyri’s house to play his PS3.
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When you’re creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
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And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
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A lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters.
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