Melee - Brad Michael Elmore on CAN’T GET NO

I definitely hear

that.

I wanted to ask you a little bit about just the difference between trying to write a piece of fiction and make a film.

There are similarities, obviously.

I mean, these are both narrative arts.

We're telling a story.

But what is your...

I mean...

I mean, maybe a different way to ask this is like what in your filmmaking experience do you feel like has been useful in the trying to write prose process? Did you learn some stuff making movies that makes writing easier?

No,

no, no.

Because, like I

said, I think it actually kind of dulled.

whatever skills I might've had as a writer young or like whatever aptitudes I might've had, you know, I was mostly, I was, you know, It's so funny when people say nerd meant something so different when I was younger.

I was into all the nerdy things, but not publicly.

I liked sports and bars and things like that.

But I really was, from a young age, I was like, I'm either going to write books, make rock and roll, comic books or movies.

It became movies.

But I think I had some sort of inclination toward writing.

I figured that's how I could break into movies is I could draw a little bit and I could write a little bit, but it seems like I get decent grade or attention whenever I write a little story and I'm just talking little kid shit like that.

And I got to tell you, I think screenwriting murdered whatever that was, to some degree.

The only thing I would say is that... probably figuring out where i'm moving in and like how long you sit in a moment i think maybe like maybe that might help a bit where it's like there's the the whole the whole book there's so many just asides and tangents of like fuck it i'm just gonna go into this mind for a bit or tell you about this because i just want to but

yeah

at the same time i do think there's some sense of that comes from making movies of like well, this is sort of the natural...

Like, we can jump three days later.