Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropperis an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 February 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Jonathan Tropper quotes about
affords certain emotional level liberates life nobody rock wants
Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.
screenplay
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.
covers guitars guys piano played
I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.
satisfying
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
resolve themselves
On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve themselves in shorter order.
discomfort experience people work
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
lines hoping-for-the-best screenwriting
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
true-love pain answers
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
empowering comfortable
Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
conflict ass grunt
If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.
realizing better-than-you
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
loneliness symphony play
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.
used used-to-be
The future just isn't what it used to be
happy-endings
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.