Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it. “I want to make more movies like ‘Garden State,'” Braff said at the time, referencing a need to capture the “social temperature” of a generation in a “lose memoir” of his personal debut film.In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. Braff cited Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” and Alexander Payne’s films as inspirations behind the coming-of-age story.
You get used to it.”īraff told IndieWire in 2004 when “Garden State” debuted that he was constantly concerned he was “fucking this up” during production. But I’ve been doing this for 20 years now. When you’re young, you’re very vulnerable.
Otherwise, what’s the point? Your skin gets tougher. No one said being a creative person was easy, but you have to be vulnerable and authentically yourself. The “ A Good Person” writer-director-producer summed up, “I just feel lucky that I get to make stuff.
As I was writing it, I was hoping I could survive what became known as the quarter-life crisis, and depression, and fantasizing that the perfect woman would come along and rescue me.” “I wasn’t as extreme as Andy, but I was certainly battling my own demons. That’s what writing ‘Garden State’ was about,” Braff said, citing his character Andy. With ‘A Good Person,’ Zach Braff Creates Something Worse Than the Manic Pixie Dream Girlīraff acknowledged that his OCD diagnosis and depression affected his writing process.
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