Brian Koppelman
13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 1, 2019 by Brian Koppelman · across every show →
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Apr 1, 2019
Koppelman: Every character in 'Billions' is written to be smarter than the writers
“You have to make these fictional characters feel incredibly real to you, and you want to write them smarter than you are, and that's the only thing I can say is we want every character in Billions to be smarter than we are.”
Apr 1, 2019
Koppelman: Achieving creative control requires taking responsibility for failure
“If you don't have control, you don't take the blame. So if you're comfortable, if you can find a way to be comfortable with failure, which as a writer you have to, or comfortable in your mistakes, then you can be comfortable in wanting to be the final voice on…”
Apr 1, 2019 positive
Koppelman: Creative partners should resolve major disagreements strictly in private
“If there's something that suddenly is going to, we see really differently, we just immediately take it to a private communication, right? We take the audience out of it, right? We never talked about this, but we just do it. We take the audience out of it, beca…”
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Koppelman: Mid-budget $14M-$30M films are much harder to make outside Netflix
“It's much harder to make those mid, mid, those sort of mid budget, 14 to 25 or thirty million dollar movies. Though Netflix does it, right? You can do it at Netflix now, which is probably where it would happen, but, and then, or you would try to tell the story…”
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Koppelman: Uncredited writers should write spec scripts to maintain creative leverage
“If someone's willing to pay you guys who have no credits, 5000 dollars now, write the thing, and you'll have a much better chance of success. And we've taken that lesson to heart still to this day to write unencumbered. We like to go in a room and let our idea…”
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Koppelman: Morning pages eliminate writer's block by creating momentum
“I meditate every morning, and I do morning pages every morning. So morning pages, like out of Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way, I do three longhand pages, a real brain dump, where I just Let the pen move for three pages, no matter what. And it has this i…”
Apr 1, 2019
Koppelman: Creative work does not require abandoning your other identities
“One mistake I see people make when they decide they have to do some kind of artistic work is they think it means they have to grab that identity so hard that it has to shut out the rest of their identity. But what I found was you don't have to do that.”
Apr 1, 2019
Koppelman: Delivering overlong cuts invites executive interference
“What happens when you give the 67 minute thing is you're inviting a bunch of people to tell you how to get the thing to 57 or 58 minutes. And suddenly they're giving you their opinion on it. Also, by you not having to have rigorously With discipline, make thos…”