Diana Ossana
Diana Ossana
Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. She won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar or Academy Award, a Writers' Guild of America Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award for her screenplay of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, along with McMurthy and adapted from the short story of the same name by...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth4 August 1949
lonely art jobs
One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely. we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.
emotional fiction sometimes
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.
half pages
And it's still only 50 pages of the screenplay. It's only half of the screenplay. So we did have to make up the rest.