Elie El Choufany

Person. Writer. Editor. Key collector 🇱🇧 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈 🌍 he/him

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

Done crafting structure for new tv pilot. Bringing Lebanese mythology to the screen 📺

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher: "How they plead poverty that they are losing money left and right when they give $100 millions to their CEOs."

“If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

From cinema to tv, screenwriters shape the stories that help define pop culture. Just as music and fashion do. The writers who craft these stories hold the keys to shaping our collective consciousness. What I’m saying is, don’t mess with us, bebes 😘

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

The promise of the internet was built on creating connections — the bedrock of storytelling. And now that that promise is broken with so much hate and division, it’s no coincidence that storytelling is back at the forefront of hope

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen.

John Mayer perfectly demonstrates something that many of my favorite artists all say:

You become creative by creating.

"You just keep going 'til you get something," Mayer says/sings. "You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it…it doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mind/mouth].”

Dr. Andrew Huberman talks about how the brain circuits that turn on before those involved in creativity are of the stress system.

I've heard him use 3 analogies to explain this.

1) It’s like you have to wade through sewage before you can swim in clear water.

2) It’s like when you try to lift your max on the bench press—it takes time to work up to that weight.

3) It’s like your best creative work is on the other side of a door at the top of a staircase—it takes time and effort to get up the stairs and through that door.

In other words, Dr. Huberman says, you become more creative the more you create.

Many artists talk similarly about what Mayer refers to in the clip as "ouija boarding" (just sort of spitting out words and sounds).

John Legend says his songs start with what he calls “the mumble track.” “It’s just me humming and mumbling nonsense,” he said.

Judd Apatow says his movie scripts are all a product of the Down-Up theory: “Get the ideas DOWN then fix them UP.” “Give yourself permission to suck," Judd says. "Anything goes. Just get something down.”

Even if it’s nonsense, he says. Keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.

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Before I started writing online, I told Ryan Holiday I was just waiting to know for certain what I wanted to write about.

“Just start," he said.

"You’re trying to map out the whole 9 innings. Just throw the first pitch…You’re better off starting imperfectly than being paralyzed by the delusion of perfection.”

Rather than being paralyzed by the delusion that creativity comes to you, you're better off "forcing it, forcing it, forcing it," as Mayer said.

"Go get it from the universe."

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[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

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[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

@RachellMaksoud @ianmiles 😂

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

😌

[Coleman Hall Richardson @colemanhall]

Go off, king

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

‘Places remember what people forget’

[elsa @mescavoy]

if they wanna talk about nepo babies, bring my man to the table as one of the panel because he has talked about it for more than a decade in many many interviews eventho he is friend with dozen of nepo babies and posh actors. im sure he has a lot to say

[Tofupixel (find me on BlueSky - Not active here) @TofuPixel]

miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

@StephenSeanFord 👁️

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

COME THRU MOROCCO 🇲🇦 🎉

[AFI @AmericanFilm]

Congratulations to #AFIAWARDS 2022 honoree @allatoncemovie, one of the most outstanding films of the year.

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

Migrating to Hive 🐝

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

Twitter going full 180 and turning the suspenseful sci-fi narrative of a little blue bird into a terrifying anti-hero horror origin story is very midpoint energy in Alien(1979)

[Elie El Choufany @Choufy1]

Would you like to go on an adventure?