About Richard LaGravenese: Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and film director, best known as the writer of The Fisher King.
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
Academy Awards don't really solve anything.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I really like Rosamund Pike very much.
I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.
I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
The South is like a foreign country to me!
I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.
TV is where a writer can write his novel.
Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.
'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.
I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence b...
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, N...
