Marielle Heller on the Road to 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'

New film director Marielle Heller, 35, trained as an actress and fell in love with Phoebe Gloeckner's 2002 graphic novel "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" eight years ago. She first turned it into an off-Broadway play and took the lead herself, then penned a film script, which was accepted by the Sundance writer and director workshops, where she honed it with the likes of Nicole Holofcener, Michael Arndt and Scott Frank, and gained the confidence to recognize that writing and acting chops were half the battle when directing your first movie. Heller landed bankable actors Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard. And she debuted her first feature to rousing acclaim at this...

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