Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman
Daniel Paul "Dan" Futtermanis an American actor and screenwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth8 June 1967
CitySilver Spring, MD
CountryUnited States of America
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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It's an incredible honor, and it's so unlikely. I took a stab at doing this, and it's been extremely well received. ... Phil has gotten an enormous amount of attention, all of it well deserved. I think we've gotten our fair share, and whatever shakes out in terms of Oscar stuff is fine.
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The first moment I saw Phil act is a really vivid memory for me,
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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He went to every fund-raising meeting vouching for a first-time feature director and first-time screenwriter. It was Phil who said, 'I believe in them; you need to trust me.
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He's also one of those friends who doesn't impress easily. And so if you get a good reaction from him, it actually means something. So it was important for me to hear from him something about the script, whether it was good or bad.
But at the end of the day, it was his call. So I would go off and do rewrites while they shot.