Ben Stiller vs. Kurt Vonnegut: Respecting Your Audience of One

By Timothy Rhys
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/ben_stiller_vs_kurt_vonnegut_respecting_your_audience_of_one_20080611/
“Every successful creative person creates with an audience of one in mind.”
—Kurt Vonnegut

We had our first reading of the screenplay Saturday at the St. Lawrence Arts Center in Portland. I had put a call out for actor/readers and a great bunch of people replied. They sat on stage and we read through the entire script and then discussed it afterward. The whole process took three-and-a-half hours and the actors and audience members all had some good comments.