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Filmmaking Quote #35 (Les Blank)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“You go out and find some interesting people. You get to know them and film them, and you make something that says something about who they are; you learn to make movies that have some meaning.” Filmmaker Les Blank (Burden of Dreams) A Well Spent Life by Betsy Mclane DGA Quarterly Spring 2012 Scott W. Smith [...] “When I went to do graduate work, I had the desire to be a film director of fiction films. I didn’t have any camera skills. I didn’t actually pick up the camera until I got out of Tulane and into USC in Los Angeles. There, I started learning about still and film photography. When I [...] “I had to tell this story.” Richard Krevolin Making Light in Terezin director One of the most memorable video shoots in my life was one day in the ’90s when I shot two interviews of Holocaust survivors for what was then called the Shoah Foundation that Steven Spielberg help launch after making Schindler’s List. It’s [...] |
