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.
BEAU WILLIMONYou 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.
BEAU WILLIMONIs self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
BEAU WILLIMONWhen 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.
BEAU WILLIMONFilm is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you’re dealing with a lot more characters.
BEAU WILLIMONIn 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.
BEAU WILLIMONIf 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.
BEAU WILLIMONI don’t think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
BEAU WILLIMONI refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life.
BEAU WILLIMONThe fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
BEAU WILLIMONAnd they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
BEAU WILLIMONWe all experience power struggles in our lives – at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we’re all politicians.
BEAU WILLIMONMy jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.
BEAU WILLIMONIn Washington, if you’re a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you’d think that if you were the leader of the free world you’d be making major bank, and you don’t.
BEAU WILLIMONA lot more locations and you’re able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
BEAU WILLIMONI think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
BEAU WILLIMONIn 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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