Quote by Joan Didion
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
Summary
In this quote, the speaker, who is a writer of movies, expresses their previous inability to create scenes with numerous speakers or complex interactions. They specifically mention struggling with depicting situations where multiple individuals engage in conversation around a dinner table, speaking over one another. The speaker acknowledges being in awe of others who possess the skill to effectively capture and convey such intricate and chaotic dialogue in their writing.
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Movies
By Joan Didion
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