“I wanted to bottle the pain of standing in a parking lot next to a Piggly Wiggly and having your heart broken.” Writer director Jeff Nichols on his film Mud When a man loves a woman, he can’t keep his mind on nothing else He’ll trade the world for the good thing he’s found If she […]
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Author ArchiveLove my ma, love my pa But I just love ole Arkansas Arkansas lyrics from the musical Big River <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pv30J05U2nI” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen><iframe> “I remember I was in junior high school and I was going to write a short story about mobsters, or New York mobsters. I think I had just seen a Scorsese […] “There is no way I’d be doing what I do now if it wasn’t for The Beatles. I was watching the Ed Sullivan show and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys in the middle of nowhere could make […]
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Writing Quote #39 (Writing in Paris)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis morning I was in Atlanta, Georgia and writer Pat Conroy was on my mind. On this road trip I’ve been listening to Conroy’s book on CD My Reading Life. While he’s usually associated with South Carolina’s Lowcounty because many of his books (The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, South of Broad) are set in that […] (Had a little technical issue so I’m posting Wednesday’s post just now.) ” In the active voice, the subject performs the action. In the passive voice, the subject is acted upon.” Contance Hale The Pleasures and Peril of the Passive/NY Times Driving through Tennessee today I spoke briefly on the phone with William Akers who lives in Nashville […] I’m on the tail end of a three week road trip working on a variety of video projects and I took the above picture at sunset this evening in Quincy, Illinois. The town sits on the Mississippi and no doubt was a stop for Mark Twain who came from Hannibal, Missouri just down river. Quincy [...]
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Filmmaker Les Blank (1935-2013)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I think he’s a national treasure.” Director Taylor Hackford on Les Blank “As his work testifies, [Les]Blank has made a fine art out of making a personal connection with diverse people. He works through the lens, behind the camera, never drawing attention to himself. He makes friends with his subjects, spends weeks with them and [...]
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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 [...] |
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