Whit Stillman

Whit Stillman was an editorial assistant at Doubleday. He also wrote for The Harvard Crimson, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, The Guardian, Vogue... His first novel "The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards" was awarded the 2014 Fitzgerald Award.

A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny and the films that aren't worthwhile won't. It's all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don't think that's true at all.