“Filmmaking is dictated by fear. By financial pressures, temporal pressures, career pressures. You really have to be with people who are close friends, who have the proverbial grace under pressure (and it’s easier with friends), and that’s one reason why some movies turn out better than others. I don’t know that anybody’s ever bothered to [...]
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“I wanted to be a writer, but next in importance to being a writer was to make a living as a writer—very important to me.” Sol Saks “Go back to the Greeks, who had stories of gods coming down to Earth to live with mortals. There are stories in other cultures of angels doing the [...]
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“Identification is also a valuable tool in comedy writing. Used by writers in the sense of ‘to identify with,’ identification means the listener or reader can relate to your characters. This isn’t as circumscribed as it sounds. A middle-aged, white, automobile mechanic does not relate only to middle-age white mechanics. He may relate to a [...]
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In light of the Dallas Mavericks winner there first NBA title last night I thought it would be fitting to find a quote from the teams controversal ower Mark Cuban—the Ted Turner of his day. As an entrepreneur who sold his Internet company vBroadcast.com years ago in a deal worth $5.7 billion, Cuban has a [...]
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According to IMDB, screenwriter David H. Steinberg entered Yale at 16 and earned a law degree from Duke University. After working in entertainment law in Atlanta and New York he headed to LA to pursue a career in film and went to USC graduating in 1998. And just for good measure it says that he’s [...]
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“The budget (for The Station Agent) was $500,000, and yeah, this being my first film did certainly make it harder to raise. Whenever you write an independent film that doesn’t read like a sellable Hollywood script, people get a bit nervous, and if it’s from a first time writer/director then people get nervous, and when [...]
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“Writer-director Tom McCarthy is now 3-for-3 at Sundance thanks to his charming, surprisingly affecting dramedy “Win Win,” which is easily the best movie I’ve seen at Sundance so far.” Jeff Sneider The Wrap January 22, 2011 “Every week or two you’ll see a film that cost $100 million and, as likely as not, the script [...]
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“Filmmaking is a way to celebrate, but also ridicule, satirize, expose, exaggerate, compare, contrast and do all manner of inquiry into the darkest and most sublime corners of the human spirit , mind and society.” Filmmaker Ricado Scipio Interview by Christopher Wehner Screenwriter’s Utopia
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“I enjoyed doing the ‘Hurt’ video because I felt we were doing something worthwhile, that it was something kind of special.” Johnny Cash “There’s something about the juxtaposition of Johnny as a young vibrant man and Johnny toward the end of his life—we new there was something really powerful was going on there.” Hurt video [...]
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“Everything I do, I’ve never done before. Sometimes no one has ever done before.” Visual artist/director Rob Bliss “And in the streets: the children screamed, The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.” Don McLean American Pie How long does it take to make a mid-sized Midwest city in America the center of international acclaim? About [...]
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