“The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday—that’s guaranteed.” Pat (Bradley Cooper) Silver Linings Playbook “Next year all our troubles will be miles away.” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas lyrics Frank Sinatra version featured in Silver Linings Playbook Here’s a little video I put together today sitting in a hospital bed on […]
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“If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert.” Author Anne Lamott/ @ANNELAMOTT Hail the heaven born Prince of Peace Hail the Son of righteousness Light and life to all He brings Ris’n healing in His wings Christmas carol lyrics of Hark! The Herald Angles Sing The first time I cried watching TV […]
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“Stop making the same, safe, soul-less movies and TV shows.” Part of a memo from the Sony Pictures leak “We have a new paradigm, a new reality, and we’re going to have to come to real terms with it all the way down the line.” George Clooney on the Sony hack and canceling of The […]
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“I used to call what we do when we light for movies ‘poetic realism.’ A scene should look real, but it should also have poetry. When we light something in a movie, we sometimes want it to look better than life. Sometimes we want to exaggerate a little bit to get the point across. We […]
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“I can make shoot three bad movies and still make movies.” Janusz Kaminski on the career longevity of a cinematographer verses a director How does one go from being born in Ziebice, Dolnoslaski, Poland to being the Oscar-winning right hand cinematographer of director Steven Spielberg? The short answer is talent and hustle. At least that what […]
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Cinematographers are a bunch a liars and cheaters. Screenwriters, too. In a good way, of course. It’s all part of the job. Just doing their part in creating a world of make believe. For instance, Jerry Maguire didn’t really exist. Sure there were composites of real people he was based on, but he was a fictional […]
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“I want to make movies where I can express myself to visuals.” Cinematographer Janusz Kamisnski (Saving Private Ryan) “It looks kind of effortless when you’re seeing [movies] on the screen, but it’s a really complicated process. Especially in that opening scene [of Saving Private Ryan]. We had to lay down the mannequins, we had to […]
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“Let both sides seek to involve the wonders of science..let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage arts and commerce.” President John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address on January 16, 1961 I have news to announced—the Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places countdown. Countdown to what? I’m not 100% […]
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“I formed my notions of America in Yugoslavia by watching films. And most of the films were westerns so therefore when I landed [in the USA] I honestly expected—maybe if not John Wayne—a close friend of his to be there on a horse.” Screenwriter Steve Tesich (The World According to Garp, American Flyers) I don’t […]
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“There’s a quality that most first scripts share: fresh, surprising, and unspoiled.” Oscar-winning producer Tony Bill (The Sting) Moviespeak I was eighteen Didn’t have a care Working for peanuts Not a dime to spare But I was lean and Solid everywhere Like a rock Lyrics by Bob Seger/Like a Rock The 1979 movie Breaking Away was nominated […]
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