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
attracted couple good material opposed terrible
I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
breaking dumb good ground territory
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
artistic good less merit
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.
good hear impress means reaction whether
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.
writing mind actors
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
bombay walks thrilling
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
bars bar-mitzvah raised
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
silly dumb shooting
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
arc controls final follows natural nature theater whereas
With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
accidents car certain detailed gave known since wrote
Yeah, look, he's known me since I was getting into car accidents ... Then I was an actor for years. And I wrote an outline, a pretty detailed outline, and gave it to him, and I'm pretty certain he has yet to read that outline.
people persona
His persona was what people responded to with shock,
ambitious biography title worships
He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn't want a biography that worships the title character. I wanted a movie that portrays the truth.
ambitious
He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful,
capote fascinated genuinely great involved saw ticket
Capote had these dueling motivations for being involved with this guy. He genuinely was fascinated with (Perry Smith), but he also saw him as a ticket to writing this great book.