Film Courage: If you were going to give another screenwriter a pep talk, let's say they
were coming to story Expo 2015 and maybe they were nervous...we heard from a couple
of people that there were some people that were nervous. Larry Hankin: Right. Film Courage: Well would your
pep talk be to that screenwriter don't be nervous? Larry Hankin, actor/filmmaker: Okay,
it's it first of all it doesn't serve anything. I mean maybe it does it helps
you prepare maybe well nervous had better prepare so you're prepared but
you can prepare without being nervous so nervous has nothing to do with it but I
find that I've always been right artistically maybe not among other
people but artistically I've always been right maybe I didn't have enough chops
so keep writing or keep drawing you know I've got paint also but but keep keep
doing it and always try to be better and always try to do your best but don't
listen to other people well I guess you can listen but you're not to do what
they say and that's I guess the difference you know listen I've always
been right and I found out every other person has always been right who's been
successful successful people are right a priori one of the great things about
about pitching my rehearsal back at home was I said okay what's the core of the
clown what's the core of the clown and that I had to go what's the core of
Chaplin what's the core of any clown no doubt clowns have no doubt that's why
they're funny I mean they hit a challenge and they they hit a wall they
get stopped but they don't they don't Chaplin once he stopped just goes in
another direction but he doesn't back up and go God you know they they they get
over they get over they don't get over it they get over it keep going forward i
remote tarantino said some of the most brilliant thing you know directory he
said well hey you know how do you just keep going he says I think of myself as
a pac-man you know that game pac-man he said I think of myself as a pack man
I can't go back I can only go forward any huge bites cool Thank You mr.
Tarantino so that I just keep that in mind there's no doubt man you just keep
going you and and maybe you're not good enough now for this but as long as you
get better just keep on going that that's all so you know I learned I'm not
saying you can't learn that's why I'm here to learn how to pitch you know but
there was never a time when someone just crushed you oh yeah all the time my
parents close friends I mean everybody yes they did I and then that was that
was the tragedy I listened to these stupid people I remember a therapist
once said I was complaining about my father and he first of all he the first
thing he said was I said God what he said shit that parents tell their kids
is unbelievable he said every kid that comes in here
he said they're fine it's their parents that are fuckin crazy but I can't tell
them that because I'll stop taking the kid a year so you know the best I can do
is protect the kid from who from their parents it's the parents who fuck up
kids kids don't fuck themselves up you're born cool you know and then
Slayers come around you so you know chose not to listen obviously after a
while I learned because I tried to do it their way I try to do it my parents when
I tried to do my teachers way of trying to do it everybody else's way and it
never worked so I thought hey let me try it my way and I found out AI was a lot
happier and gradually I became better and more affirmed the world affirmed you
know throw that one hand up in the universe slaps it
you know but that takes a lot of learning it's not easy
you