Scénariste/conceptrice
Sur le site Making of, Nathalie Portman mène une entrevue (8 minutes) avec le cinéaste Jim Sheridan qui donne son point de vue sur les difficultés de lire un scénario et de bien interpréter la vision de l’auteur:
« People don’t really know how to read scripts as blueprints. Studio people read them more as an advertisement to make a movie. So a script becomes just a way to get a movie made. »
Behind the smooth-talking, chain-smoking, misogynist advertising executives on “Mad Men†is a group of women writers, a rarity in Hollywood television. Seven of the nine members of the writing team are women. Women directed five of the 13 episodes in the third season. The writers, led by the show’s creator Matthew Weiner, are drawing on their experiences and perspectives to create the show’s heady mix: a world where the men are in control and the women are more complex than they seem, or than the male characters realize.
According to the Directors Guild of America, the labor union that represents film and television directors, about 13% of its 8,000 directors are female. Women comprised 23% of television writers during the 2007 to 2008 prime-time season, a 12 percentage point decrease from the same period a year earlier. Nearly 80% of TV programs in the 2007 to 2008 prime-time season had no women writers, according to a study by Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.
« I can’t tell you how much I like your comments about my movies. Nor can I tell you how helpful they are to me for future projects. I listen. Not to Hollywood. I listen to you. I make these movies for you. Really. No lie. There’s a difference I think you understand. »
From a letter John Hughes wrote to a teenage fan with whom he kept a long correspondance. Read the whole story here.