3 Quotes & Sayings By Edgar Cantero

Edgar Cantero, winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He graduated with honors from Columbia University's Creative Writing program, where he served as president of PEN American Center. He is currently a professor at Columbia University's Graduate Film School and writes and produces films and television shows under his own production company, Lucky Guy Productions.

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This was different. It had synths droning and sending saltwater waves under my feet. It had drumbeats bursting like fireworks, rumbling the furniture out of place, and then a crazy, irregular, disharmonious, spiral crescendo of pure electric noise, like a typhoon dragging our bodies into it. It featured brass orchestras and choirs of mermaids and a piano in Iceland, all of them right there, visible, touchable, in Axton House. It shook us, fucked us, suspended us far above the reach of Help bouncing on his hind legs. It spoke of magenta sunsets and plastic patio chairs growing moss under summer storms rolling on caterpillar tracks. It sprinkled a bokeh of car lights rushing through night highways and slapped our faces like the wind at a hundred and twenty miles an hour. It pictured Niamh playing guitar, washed up naked on a beach in Fiji. Edgar Cantero
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I think I broke Kerri, ” she said. “Go fix her, ” Al commanded, unfazed. “We’ve got enough broken parts. Edgar Cantero