Interview with Abbe M. Levine
Q: The God-Shaped Hole is a poignant comedy that looks at the nature of love and faith. Its central character, Jane Ashby, is trying to figure out who or what God is. To what degree is her search also an attempt to find out who she is? A: I think Jane's attitude towards religion is deeply rooted in her history of loss. She's lost a son, a husband, and now she is losing her mother. With so much loss around her, I do think it's true that Jane loses herself, as well. With so muc
Interview with Julie Tosh
Q: Skirt is very much a story of adaptation and survival - how we adapt to trauma, how we do or don't cope with the truth, how love survives or doesn't when circumstances change. Is this Darwinian reality - survival of the fittest - something many of us skirt around in life? A: From what I know of Darwin, his theories focused on physical adaptations, not the psychological changes that seem so necessary today to function well in the world. Society defines what is fit. The defi
Interview with Andrea Sloan Pink
Q: Is Les Hollywood Hillsultimately the story of an older artist, on his way out of life, giving a younger artist a profound gift? A: Yes. The gift is kind of like receiving a sharp knife. It can be a tool for good, wielded as a surgeon wields a scalpel, or a tool of destruction. Q: Ralph tells Juliette that "filmmakers have to look". Are there too many playwrights and filmmakers who don't look hard enough, who prove too cowardly when it comes to truth telling and storytellin
