Beau Willimon
Beau Willimon
Pack Beauregard "Beau" Willimonis an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the creator of the Netflix original series House of Cards and served as showrunner for the first four seasons...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth1 August 1975
CountryUnited States of America
children hard-work play
If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.
character able location
Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
struggle love-life our-love
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
believe people creative
In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
voice vision different
Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with different artistic visions and voices. And they all have something to offer and making the story better and bringing their vision to what you see in the frame.
self leader want
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
ambition thinking games
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
jobs men totems
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
creating roles actors
When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
thinking
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
people notes scenarios
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
home games play
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
brain wire shifting
You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
party way compromise
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.