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Dec 18, 2016 · Gordy is now a screenwriter and the creator of the Cinemax series Quarry, which was recently released on iTunes and other platforms.
Oct 28, 2016 · 'Quarry' showrunners Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy on teaming up with series director Greg Yaitanes, what makes Mac an interesting character, and more.
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Sep 10, 2016 · The series’ creators and scriptwriters discuss inspirations, setting the series in 1970s Memphis and creating a land of believable misfits. Michael D. Fuller: Graham and I are both from the South…
- Quarry Cinemax
Graham Gordy is known for Quarry (2016), True Detective (2014) and Rectify (2013).
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Graham Gordy
- Writing Is Hard
- Writing to “Say Something”
- The Industry
- What Now?
- Conclusion
It’s hard to write. Let’s start off with that. It’s hard to write. Aristotle begins his Poeticstalking about “mimesis,” or imitation, and how we, as human beings, learn everything by imitating the actions of other humans (as if there weren’t enough of an incentive not to be raised by assholes). We mirror life. We learn by watching and then doing. A...
In grad school, I was too cool to learn craft. I said I wanted to be experimental. The problem with that thinking is that if you don’t know the craft, if you don’t know the form, with what are you experimenting? It took me a long time to learn that “experimental,” in my case, was a synonym for “childishness,” and for not wanting to do the work. The...
Oh Lord. I didn’t want to address the industry. I’ll feel so cheap and tawdry afterward. It’s also where I spent all that Maker’s Mark I mentioned before. But the subject of this article does warrant that we acknowledge the tension between art and commerce. You may have no interest in writing for Hollywood or Broadway, but certainly many writers ha...
So…what do we do now? What do any of us do? Regardless of our commercial ambitions, or lack thereof, we work harder and get better. We make better films and plays. We work twice as hard. We master structure, character, dialogue, personal voice, theme, and tone. The days of an interesting little independent film, or play, that has a lot of structura...
Elia Kazan declared that the life of a dramatist, “is a totality.… Everything is pertinent, there is nothing irrelevant or trivial.” You are choosing to depict lifeas your vocation, so you must know life better than the average observer. Part of what appealed to me so much about writing was the writing life—the idea of spending most of the day in m...
Aug 24, 2016 · Graham Gordy’s Journey from Central Arkansas Theater to Television Success. Graham Gordy has taken the long way around to television success as a writer, especially considering his first passion was acting. He looks back to his early childhood to pinpoint his love of the craft.
Sep 21, 2020 · Quarry co-creator/exec producer Graham Gordy is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. Edgerton will executive produce via his Five Henrys production banner, as part of a...
