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
affected again chord friend knew next second struck woke
A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I was just stunned, it just struck a chord in me. Then I woke up the next morning, and I was just emotionally exhausted, and I knew I had to read it again to see what had affected me so much. And it affected me even more in the second reading.
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.
audiences believed both eventually honestly people rapid rather startled surprised win
Not win awards, win people. Win audiences. I'm honestly not surprised people like it, but I'm rather startled by the widespread, rapid word-of-mouth. We both believed it would be a film that would eventually find its way.
agreed known time
He said it was a masterpiece. That's the only time in the 20 years that I've known him that he's agreed with me on the first time.
afraid imagining notions people shatter whatever
It's a movie, I just don't know what they're so afraid of. Whatever preconceived notions you have, you need to set them aside, the film will shatter those notions. It really isn't what people are imagining in their head. It's a lot more encompassing.
emotional fiction sometimes
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.
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.