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Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris met when they were students at UCLA, and their long collaboration, personally and professionally, explains why they have such a rapport as filmmakers, and why they have a tendency to finish each others' sentences. When I spoke to them on July 23, 2012, the film in question was their second feature, RUBY SPARKS, a perfect follow-up to their first film, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.  The conversation, full of laughter and asides, covered what it was like to re-connect with SUNSHINE co-star Paul Dano, the perils of the blank page, and why the color white is more than it seems.