Ask the Author: Allison Burnett
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Allison Burnett
I wrote the script and directed the movie, so naturally I think both are fabulous. I hav
Allison Burnett
Can you believe it took me a year to see this? THANK YOU!
Allison Burnett
I would love to return to 1850 England. I would visit the Charlotte Bronte on the Haworth Moor. Then I would pop down to London and try to meet Dickens, Tennyson, and any of the other literary Victorians I could corner.
Allison Burnett
Nick and Nora Charles. Pure understanding, acceptance, and enjoyment of each other.
Allison Burnett
Maybe this will help: The world that we shift to at the end of the movie is merely the realistic version of the world that we have just left, the world as presented by Katie, who has embellished and concealed and distorted things a bit to protect her identity and perhaps to inflate her sense of importance. Now we see who the people really were before Katie distorted them in her blog. But in the difference lies the difficulty in her mother (or us) ever discovering what happened to her. She has been lost in the miasma of social media.
In a way, the not knowing what happened to Katie/Amy is really the point of the movie.
What matters is not so much whether someone hurt Katie, it is that anyone might have, as her beauty, sexuality, youth, and recklessness inspired such intense anger and desire from men.....
I know it's difficult for many viewers, especially when so much art these days tells you everything, but you have to see if you can embrace the ambiguity. If you can, it becomes a much bigger and better movie. At least I think so.
I guess what I am saying is that the not knowing is truly the point, and it always was, from the moment I began writing the novel.
In a way, the not knowing what happened to Katie/Amy is really the point of the movie.
What matters is not so much whether someone hurt Katie, it is that anyone might have, as her beauty, sexuality, youth, and recklessness inspired such intense anger and desire from men.....
I know it's difficult for many viewers, especially when so much art these days tells you everything, but you have to see if you can embrace the ambiguity. If you can, it becomes a much bigger and better movie. At least I think so.
I guess what I am saying is that the not knowing is truly the point, and it always was, from the moment I began writing the novel.
Allison Burnett
Write at least five days a week, preferably at the same time each day, and don't censor yourself. Get something down. Read only the best books until you are thirty years old. Books that have already stood the test of time. Nothing written after 1940, say.
Allison Burnett
Sitting in a quiet solitary place and creating an inviolable parallel universe in the imagination. An incredible antidote to the chaos and overstimulation of actual life among one's fellow humans.
Allison Burnett
I have never really experienced it since my late twenties when I began writing every morning from dawn until lunch. I find that the routine of working every day (although now that I have kids, I take Sundays off) strengthens the imagination in the same way that daily workouts strengthen the body.
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