“I believe luck favors those who are prepared.” Screenwriter Marc Maurino “Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.” Louis Pasteur French chemist & microbiologist I know very little French and even less about microbiology, but I think you’ll find the above quote helpful in your screenwriting and filmmaking endeavours. It’s [...]
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“The question about breaking in seems perfectly legit, but really it’s not. A writer must create compelling work, and then try to sell it. Once sold, the writer has to do the same thing again. It’s really not true that the writer ‘breaks in’—that’s an artifact of the belief that the person is being judged, [...]
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“The industry is moving toward the big and the small. I think studios will always want a few of the high-budget high-profile projects. And there will be more and more of the micro-budget stuff. Everything in between is getting cut back, the marketing costs and production costs are too high, they don’t make sense in [...]
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Even though I’ve traveled to all 50 states in the U.S. and have been to every major city and most midsized cities, I’ve never been to Kalamazoo (metro pop. 326,589). I have been to Grand Rapids, Michigan and South Bend, Indiana— so I’ve been close. But did you know there’s been some big league talent [...]
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Since I’ve been kicking around Michigan recently on this blog I thought I’d find a quote from a Detroit son. Producer/director/actor/writer Scott Spiegal went to Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, MI with Sam Raimi. He and Raimi wrote Evil Dead II, he directed Hostel: Part III, and acted in both Spider-Man and Spider-Man [...]
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Since for the last few days I’ve been kicking around Michigan on this blog I thought I’d pull a quote from Detroit writer Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma). In the above video Leonard talks about how he usually starts writing based on characters. “Who’s good in this [story] and who’s bad ? That’s [...]
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“At a time when Michigan finds itself reeling from the struggles of the industry that dominated our economy for 100 years, Pure Michigan gives America (and the world) a whole new perspective on a state that has so much more to offer than idled factories. It’s not just an ad campaign, it’s a whole new [...]
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“We did everything wrong—everything out of order.” Writer/director Cindy Gustafson For the past 100 years of film history every filmmaker knows what it’s like to go down many dead end streets. The frustrating part is those streets never have a warning sign reading “Dead End Street.” The best way to deal with that is to know that [...]
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The following exchange is from the article Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration: Artiston Anderson: How does an aspiring artist bridge the gap between distribution and commerce? Francis Ford Coppola: We have to be very clever about those things. You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that [...]
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“I always had a good philosophy about risks. The only risk is to waste your life.” Francis Ford Coppola “Even in the early days of the movies, they didn’t know how to make movies. They had an image and it moved and the audience loved it. You saw a train coming into the station, and [...]
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