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Jesse Andrews:
What was the biggest challenge in converting your book into a movie? I loved Me and Earl and can't wait for The Haters. Thank you!
Jesse Andrews
thanks man! i hope you like the haters. the biggest challenge, and lesson, of adapting my book was learning to write about a billion times more economically, which is what a screenplay requires. you just get to have way fewer words and lines of dialogue. and then once you think you've really slimmed a scene down, you hear actors go through it the first time, and you realize, oh my god, this scene is still about 800% too long.
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Carrie Goodall
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Jesse Andrews:
As he was writing the book, was Greg aware that the whole process would be cathartic? There are a few points at the end of chapters when he says he hates writing about all of it. I guess what I'm asking is if, in your mind, Greg realized the process was cathartic or if he was just forcing himself to do it for the Pitt admissions people? He wasn't incredibly self-aware about his grief before Rachel died.
Christina
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Jesse Andrews:
I love when authors write the screenplay for their films. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does MAN does it feel like a success. How did you go about picking and choosing what scenes were left behind from the book? And if you could have kept something in (that you didn't) what would it be?
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