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CAROLINE THOMPSON

Academy Award · Tony · Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer/Director
Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Moonstruck · Wild Mountain Thyme · Danny and the Deep Blue Sea · Joe Versus the Volcano

I knew Philip Seymour Hoffman for several years. We went on vacation together. He produced a play of mine. Before we did Doubt, we worked in the same theater company together, and he was, you know, very committed to excellence. And so he could become impatient with anybody who was not committed to excellence, and that could make him a volatile person to deal with. Phil cared. He cared a great deal. And he worked really hard. They're very committed. Like with Viola Davis. Viola had done a decent amount of big work before Doubt, but she was not recognized yet. And she was careful. You know, she certainly wasn't throwing weight around. She was, I'm the new kid on the block, and I'm just here to work and be serious and do my job, keep my head down, and get out. And pretty much that's what I was doing too, you know, because

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Caroline Thompson was born in 1956 in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a house full of books where she fell in love with horror novels and fantasy as well as children’s classics. Her suburban neighbourhood and her favourite novel, Frankenstein, later inspired her horror novel, First Born, and first produced screenplay, Edward Scissorhands.

Thompson continued to explore horror and fantasy in screenplays for The Addams Family, City of Ember, and Welcome To Marwen, and the stop-motion animation features, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. She played with children’s classics, as well, writing screen adaptations of The Secret Garden and Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. She also took on the dual roles of screenwriter and director for Black Beauty, Buddy and Snow White: The Fairest of Them All.

In 2011, she was the first woman to receive the Austin Film Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter award. In recent years, she has run hard after her lifelong dream of becoming an oil painter.

Thompson lives near Santa Barbara, CA with her husband,

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Caroline Thompson

American writer

Not to be confused with Caroline Thomson.

Caroline Thompson (born April 23, 1956) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She wrote the screenplays for the Tim Burton-directed films Edward Scissorhands and Corpse Bride and the Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas. She co-wrote the story for Edward Scissorhands and co-adapted a new stage version of the film with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne. Thompson also adapted the screenplay for the film version of Wicked Lovely, a bestselling fantasy series, in 2011, but the production was put into turnaround. She directed Black Beauty (1994); Buddy (1997), which she also wrote; and the television film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All (2001), also as producer and co-writer.

Personal life

Thompson was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Bettie Marshall (née Warner), a teacher, and Thomas Carlton Thompson, Jr., a lawyer.^[1] She received her early education in Washington. She later moved to Cambridge, Massachuse