Julia Sweeney

My mom trying to save money because she was going to leave my dad, but she didn't have any money.

And, like, getting $50 together.

I mean, like, the saddest.

Yeah.

Yeah.

While you were in school, you were essentially living in a movie theater.

You were working there, working long hours at the Varsity Theater.

What were you learning about storytelling from watching that volume of films?

Well, I was lucky, lucky, lucky to go to the University of Washington.

And my first week I met Jim Emerson, who became and still is a lifelong great friend.

And he became a film critic and lived in L.A.

and worked for the Orange County Register for many years.

As a film critic, so film lover.

And then my film professors, Richard and Kathleen, I loved both of them.

I took all the film classes.

And we all were going to movies.

And then I was part of the founding of the Seattle Film Society, this little group with little mimeographed essays about different films.

And so...

Working at the movie theater, they only had curtains.

I had to hear the movies over and over again.