Asperger's Movie Directors/Writers?

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On my way now as a screenwriter in Australia. I definitely understand that whole thinking about plot before characters aspect. What I've learnt this year are ways of starting with the basic idea, then find the characters to populate it, then plot it. It's helped me by leaps and bounds. Although I work in what you would call the harder genres (thriller-horror-comedy-scifi-western), you need to get your characters working for you first and foremost.

I myself am a writer And have worked building sets for a while. I am now working towards becoming a director and certified in fcpx and logic 9. I find that we are good in film due to several traits. The first being that we see the world from a different perspective and can, through research that we all love, understand how and what styles are the most popular. Also, in my case, because my conversations are one sided and I often forget how loud I speak when I want something done people seem to listen. Due to the fact I talk loud, if I don't get it my way I tend to through a bit of a tantrum but not much.

The largest problem is finding the inch that will both challenge you and allow you to express your creative side.

My I.Q. Test range from 136 to 128 depending on the time of day and if I am thinking more clear that day. So choosing what can keep my attention is very hard. And that's what we need to figure out is what speaks the most to us because we can do many things well as long as we want to do them.

I think Tim Burton is, and I've suspected Steven Spielberg and after reading the post where according to someone who has seen him and said he has it, I'm convinced Spielberg has it. Peter Jackson I never considered but am willing to believe it now after what I just read here. Keanu Reeves is surely an aspie based on the way he acts and his quotes along with his friendships with River Phoenix and Robert Downey Jr, both were/are eccentric and we aspies tend to be attracted to eccentric people. He also is unusually affectionate with his male friends, which could be that he doesn't go by social standards of male friendships due to his Asperger Syndrome. I hate how so many people think he is a bad actor just because he doesn't follow neuro typical standards of acting, I mean he did Shakespeare not many actors can do that. As for other autistic actors (potentially at least), there's Daryl Hannah and Courtney Love, and Michael Jackson is also the latest suspect although he was a musician and only acted once. Glad someone else sees Keanu Reeves isn't a bad actor!

Jesse Eisenberg is a playwright as well as an actor. He's got OCD, phobias and some anxiety disorder (social anxiety?)....He likes structures and rules, that's why he became an actor (also because he wanted to fit in somewhere).

I agree about Crispin Glover. He's very interesting in interviews.

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Which reminds me of this series of videos that satirize David Lynch and Crispin Glover.
This is the first video of this youtube-series:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pn98_x_a-Q[/youtube]

This quote made me kind of think Quentin Tarantino might have it. He also reminds me a lot of myself when I'm trying to not show my Aspergers when he's in interviews

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.- Quentin Tarantino

I have thought of this myself recently. It seems like many famous directors for both TV and film have Aspergers. At first, I loved Abed, a character from Community, because his love of film and the way he is reminded me of myself. Then I found out that the creator, Dan Harmon, got diagnosed. and after some searching, it seems like a very popular job for Aspergers people to have and be successful at.