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Joan Didion

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

Joan Didion

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Joan Didion is saying that before she started writing movies, she found it difficult to create scenes where many characters talk at the same time, especially in complex group settings like a dinner table. She admired how other writers could handle these complicated conversations smoothly, but she struggled with it herself until she gained experience.

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