“We found out this really simple rule that maybe you’ve heard before, but it took us a long time to learn it. We can take these beats, which are the beats of your outline, and if the words ‘and then…’ belong between those beats, you’re fu*ked—basically. You’ve got something pretty boring. What should happen between every beat […]
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” I don’t know why I’m so hard on you Beth, when you’ve always been the daughter of my dreams. We’re almost the same person, except I don’t have your weight problems.” Joy (Patricia Clarkson) in Pieces of April Happy Mother’s Day. I picked today to round out my set of posts on Pieces of April (2003) because even […]
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“Harry Crews has a talent all his own. He begins where James Dickey left off.” Norman Mailer “I wrote four novels and short stories before I even published anything, and the reason I didn’t publish any of those things was because it wasn’t any good.” Harry Crews In his interview on The Tim Ferriss Show, […]
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“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.” Proverbs 12:15 Yesterday I listened to the longest podcast I’ve ever heard. The Interview Master: Cal Fessman and the Power of Listening on The Tim Ferriss Show is over 3 hours and 22 minutes long and full of storytelling […]
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Before Cal Fussman interviewed Mikail Gorbachev for Esquire magazine he was told that he only had 10 minutes with the one time Soviet Union leader. Instead of jumping in with a question about nuclear disarmament, the Cold War, or Ronald Reagan, he asked this question: “What’s the best lesson your father ever taught you?” This turned into a long […]
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“One of those lines from the how-to-write-movies books finally became real to me: The script is only a blueprint. During filming, last-minute decisions have to be made because of weather or budget, an individual’s availability or the director’s flash of insight. Pushing for greater naturalism, [director Lenny Abrahamson] often got the actors to improvise within […]
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“To me, Kurosawa is the Beethoven of movie directors.” Sidney Lumet “One of the hallmarks of Kurosawa’s style are his fluid camera moves… that go from a close-up, to a full shot, to an over the shoulder [shot] in a single unbroken take….What’s important here is every camera shot has a clear beginning. middle, and […]
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