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Lorene Scafaria [1978-0] American

Rank: 104
Writer, Screenwriter

Lorene Scafaria is an American screenwriter, playwright, actress, singer, and film director. She is best known for her work on the films Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, the latter her debut as director in 2012.

Movies, Technology

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No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.		101
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.	Movies, Technology	102
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.		103
I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.		104
I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.		105
Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.		106
Routine is part of coping.		107
I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.		108
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.		109
The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.		110
I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.		111
It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.		112
In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.		113
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.		114
I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.		115
What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.		116
I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.		117

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