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The One with Noah Baumbach

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January 28, 2020 Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John talks with writer-director Noah Baumbach about his film Marriage Story. With script in hand, we discuss his writing process, handling overlapping dialogue, and how to find balance in a two-hander.

We also answer a listener question about LA vs. New York apartments (01:05:16), and the challenge of making boring things interesting.

In our bonus segment for premium members (01:14:26), Craig returns to discuss escape rooms!

Links:

  • Read the script for Marriage Story here or watch Marriage Story
  • APA Signed with WGA, congrats APA!
  • Megan McDonnell, former Scriptnotes Producer, to write Captain Marvel Sequel. Congrats!
  • David Byrne’s American Utopia
  • Noah Baumbach
  • John August on Twitter
  • Craig Mazin on Twitter
  • John on Instagram
  • Outro by Alex Winder (send us yours!)
  • Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

Email us at ask@johnaugust.com

You can download the episode here.

UPDATE 1-30-2020 The transcript for this episode can be found here.

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