Katie Dippold, Who I Wrote

I Always Hated High-school Shows And High-school Movies, Because They Were Always About The Cool Kids. It Was Always About Dating And Sex, And All The Popular Kids, And The Good-looking Kids. And The Nerds Were Super-nerdy Cartoons, With Tape On Their Glasses. I Never Saw 'my People' Portrayed Accurately.

Film, Television, And Working With A Camera Is Such An Intimate Art Form That If A Camera Is Right On You, And I've Got Your Face Filling The Screen, You Have To Be Real. If You Do Anything That Is Fake, You're Not Going To Get Away With It, Because The Camera Is Right There, And The Story Is Being Told In A Very Real Way.

For Years, It's Driven Me Crazy That Women Don't Have Better Roles, Especially In Comedies. I Know So Many Funny Women But I Always Felt... Misogynist Streak Is Too Strong A Term - But A Dismissiveness.

A Lot Of Comedies Fall Apart Because They Just Go From Joke To Joke, And The Characters Are All Sort Of Being Crazy Off On Their Own.

You Have To Know Everything. You Have To Know How To Light A Scene. You Have To Know All This Technical Stuff About Directing. No, You Don't. You Can Know As Much Or As Little As You Have To. Your Main Job Is To Get Great Performances And Tell The Story Correctly And Capture It Correctly. Then It's Just Basically Yours To Complicate Or Simplify As Much As You Want.