I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.