Interview: Sallie West (2014 Nicholl Winner)

Recently I interviewed Sally West who wrote the original screenplay “Moonflower” which won the 2014 Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting.

Here is Sallie with her Nicholl Fellowship acceptance speech:

Here are links to the six installments of the entire interview:

Part 1: “I never thought I had a talent for screenwriting. And I didn’t! It has taken me 30 years of working with the language to get to this place.”

Part 2: “With the Nicholl competition, I would’ve been happy to score in the top 50th percentile. That would’ve been a success to me. I was really surprised that it did as well as it did.”

Part 3: “ It’s her world. She’s in her own world, and she’s really happy to be there. She doesn’t care to leave it, but she does find herself wanting to reach out to someone in a very tender and meaningful way.”

Part 4: “He’s not likeable at times. But that’s part of what makes him an interesting character.”

Part 5: “They just showed up in my head and I went with them, they felt real.”

Part 6: “I invent people I like, people with whom I would like to spend time. People with depth and humor and humility, hopefully.”