Jeremy Leven

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The Notebook (2004)

Jeremy Leven was born on 16 August 1941 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Real Steel (2011) and The Notebook (2004). He was previously married to Roberta Danza.

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Born
- August 16, 1941
- South Bend, Indiana, USA
Spouse
- Roberta DanzaAugust 8, 1980 - November 4, 2017 (her death, 5 children)
Other works
Novel "Satan : His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S."
Publicity listings
- 1 Interview

Trivia
Jeremy Leven was born in South Bend, Indiana and grew up in Chicago; Yuba City, California; Olympia, Washington; and Rye, New York. He was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School, where he was a fellow at the Department of Psychiatry's Child Studies Center.

Quotes
[on adapting Nicholas Sparks' novel for The Notebook (2004)] The biggest challenge is to make it real, not to make it saccharine. There's a sleight of hand while you're pulling the audience's strings not to let them know, so they don't feel like you're pulling their strings. It's a very difficult thing to do and it's a very delicate line between it, to make sure that it's real. You still get them to cry at the end, but they're crying over something that's real. It's not hard to get an audience to cry, but to get them to cry because it resonates with them - that's hard.