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Film 'Clockwatchers' was a small-budget film about four officeworkers and they're attempts to stay sane within a stifling environment. It was largely ignored, depite the presence of Lisa Kudrow and Parker Posey. Now the creators, Jill and Karen Sprecher are back with '13 Conversations About One Thing' a meditation on 'happiness' and how to achieve it. This is a fairly standard interview, with a few notable nuggets which should have been remembered the other night:

"We tend to approach stories in terms of character. It's like Aristotle says: Character is plot. If you know your characters, you know how they will act in different situations. One thing we find necessary is to know our ending when we write. The meaning of a movie is ultimately contained in the ending, and it gives us something to write toward."

How many times have seen a film, where the characters are well drawn and interesting, but who are lost in a plot which has been imprinted upon them. Examples to the usual address.