Dicillo has explained that “Living in Oblivion” was not a process that was planned out right from the start and rather he got the idea for the movie while drunk at a wedding reception, proving that you can’t always think up ideas, sometimes they have to come to you. An interesting part about the writing of this film, is that even though it is a comedic movie, it was written at a time when Dicillo was experiencing the opposite emotion, “It wasn't born out of, "Hey, let me make a funny movie." It really came out of one of the most intense periods of anger and frustration in my career. And, ironically, it turned out to be the funniest movie I've ever made.”
Getting the film written was only half the battle, Dicillo had issues funding the previous film he wrote, so how was he going to get the money for “Living in Oblivion”? Dicillo and his wife raised the funds by asking people they knew and by the actors making donations toward the making of the film. According to Dicillo, “Any actor who put up money got a part. And that is the way the entire film was cast. No one auditioned.”
Dicillo drew from some of his personal experiences for the film, stating, “Even if you're talking about a character, someone who's not you, you have to find something that is you that you really do believe and that you've really experienced and you have real feelings about, and put it in that character's mouth and in their hearts and minds.” Nearly everyone who has worked on any sort of film or television set can tell you that sometimes there are days when it feels as if everything that can go wrong is going wrong, which is part of what makes the film so relatable to a class of Radio/Tv/Film majors. “Living in Oblivion” just wouldn’t be “Living in Oblivion” if it had not been written by Dicillo or if he had not put his experience into the film.
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