Tim Blake Nelson talks to his one-time muse Michael Stuhlbarg about his debut novel “City of Blows.”
NELSON: Being lazy?NELSON: All right. Well, I think they’re already recording us, so whatever we say is going to be used against us.NELSON: I am in Toronto. I’m in Hamilton.NELSON: Well, it’s an interesting town, Hamilton. It was originally built as a banking center, and then it became an industrial center and an industrial port. And so, its initial intentions took something of a hit.
NELSON: Well, some of the stuff in there I’ve taken from my own life and most of it, not. It’s all a work of fiction. I think that, just like what you do in your performances and what I do in my performances as well, we grabbed from real life and there’s always the question how much are you going to do that. I’ve upset people in the past by doing it too much.NELSON: And I don’t do that anymore.
STUHLBARG: Did you find the process of creating a novel similar or significantly different from the plays that you’ve constructed? NELSON: I think that’s absolutely true, and it’s taken me a long time to learn it. I am also beginning to learn over the last five or six years that that also applies to the dialogue with the text itself, so that when I’m working on a part, the choices that I can’t help but start to consider as I read a script for the first time are not the choices I end up making.NELSON: No, I just used to think those first choices are the best ones, because it’s intuition, it’s impulsive.
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