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Mike Binder

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Mike Binder is an award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer. His latest film is Black or White, starring Kevin Costner. Keep Calm is his first novel.

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How did you find the process of writing a novel compared to that of writing a screenplay?

Mike Binder It's a different medium really. A script is more or less a blueprint, a road map to give to others, (directors, actors, production, etc) A book is a s…moreIt's a different medium really. A script is more or less a blueprint, a road map to give to others, (directors, actors, production, etc) A book is a standalone piece. Much more of an intimate and final work that's meant to only entertain the reader. More like a painting than a sketch.(less)

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How did writing a novel compare to your screenwriting experience?

Mike Binder Since this was my first novel and I had written so many scripts it was a new muscle but at the end of the day, it's story telling. With a book you nee…moreSince this was my first novel and I had written so many scripts it was a new muscle but at the end of the day, it's story telling. With a book you need to do more of the job than a screenwriter, but it's still a similar discipline. It's still how much do I tell, how much do I save until later, how much have I hooked the reader in. With scripts, you're writing for studio people and actors and financiers, but you're still telling them a story.(less)

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“Anger and resentment can stop you in your tracks. That's what I know now. It needs nothing to burn but the air and the life that it swallows and smothers. It's real, though - the fury, even when it isn't. It can change you... turn you... mold you and shape you into
something you're not. The only upside to anger, then... is the person you become. Hopefully someone that wakes up one day and realizes they're not afraid to take the journey, someone that knows that the truth is, at best, a partially told story. That anger, like growth, comes in spurts and fits, and in its wake, leaves a new chance at acceptance, and the promise of calm. Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.”
― Mike Binder

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“Never Moon a Werewolf.”
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“People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible... unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes... they just don't have all the facts.”
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