Interviews

The Spec Script Library

Screenwriter : Guilden

Gravity
keeps this writer somewhere in the West,
the Cavalier West, near
a Shady Lane.

. . .

What is your passion?

Love.

What is your pride?

Doubt.

What is your greatest fear?

Mortality without meaning.

What does adversity do to you?

It bends me.

What is your best quality?

Passion.

What is your worst quality?

Pride.

What irksome habits do you have?

Insanely over-analytical one minute, insanely peaceful the next.

If you could have your time again, what would you do that is different?

Everything if I could remember most of what has happened so far; nothing if can't remember.

What would you like to change about yourself? About others?

I have no intuitive answer; change has become less of an event and more of a willingness to appreciate acceptance.

How important is goal setting to you?

Necessary near-evil.

What goals do you have?

Learn to deconstruct my experiences without damaging my despair (and hope) and the despair (and hope) of those around me.

What is your ultimate goal?

To not have an ultimate goal, to focus on the process of things.

What heroes do you have?

My son, my daughter, my best friend.

What inspires you in others?

Change.

What inspires you in yourself?

My (numerous) imperfections.

What will be written on your headstone?

He found love.

What does success mean to you?

Seeing other people's happiness, re-celebrating happiness and good fortune each day.

How do you measure success?

I find that I want to measure success but I can usually only feel it.

What are your pet hates?

Unnecessary confusion (necessary confusion is acceptable).

What are your pet loves?

Illumination through beauty.

What do you think of pets?

Lovely.

When are you happiest?

When I'm in love.

When are you hardest to please?

Immediately after facing economic uncertainty; thereafter I am okay.

What has been your most embarrassing moment?

I feel as though I'm repressing the fact that I have blocked that moment out.

What's the most exhilarating thing you have done?

Been in love!

What is it about screen writing that gets your fired?

Bad writing ;) Nonchalantly, the things I discover--and invent--about myself and others.

What screenplays have you written?

Only one, "Ping Pong Over The Abyss", always in development. Numerous partial others.

What is your favorite pastime?

Rollerblading, right now.

What is your favorite motto?

It varies. For awhile it has been: "I hope and hope for an ahistorical moment, hence the garbled dizzy tone." --Stephen Malkmus

. .

If you would like to contact Guilden
please mail him

. . .

Anytime you have questions about the Library
please mail us