Lorene Scafaria Quotes

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Lorene Scafaria

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 1, 1978

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

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Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

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It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

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The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

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I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

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I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

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I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

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For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

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No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

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In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.

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No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

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What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

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I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

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I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

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