“There’s just too many interesting things going on now.” Chase Jarvis “You’ll be unstoppable if you become techincal as well as creative.” Producer/director/editor/cameraman/etc. Robert Rodriguez Many times I have mentioned that one of the key mantras when I was in film school in the 80s was, “You don’t want to be a jack-of-all trades and [...]
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Long before the Coen brothers collected one of their four Oscars (Fargo, No County for Old Men) and Sam Raimi started directing the Spider—Man franchise the three worked on a little film called The Evil Dead that was released in 1981. Raimi was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and raised in Detroit where he began [...]
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The following exchange is from the book My First Movie edited by Stephen Lowenstein: Joel Coen: “(To make Blood Simple) we followed the example of Sam Raimi. Sam had done this trailer, almost like a full-length version of The Evil Dead, but on Super 8. He raised like sixty or ninety thousand dollars that way, essentially by [...]
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“I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. I think that 10 or 12 years ago I decided to try to make that happen, that I wrote fewer scripts that didn’t get made. I do some very conscious things to make that [...]
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Take this soul Stranded in some skin and bones Take this soul And make it sing —Yahweh, U2 Hallelujah—Bon Jovi Yahweh-U2 A Portrait of Christ—Photographer/graphic artist Jeremy Cowart In The Garden—Bob Dylan Here Was A Man—Johnny Cash Amazing Grace—Elvis
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“I started out in television. My basic training is television. I love the activity of television. It’s fast, there’s a lot to do. It’s a real job, you know? And I like that. I like going to work every day and having a lot of tasks to perform. I think there’s a lot of bullshit [...]
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“My life is one of great stillness. I can do almost nothing. I rarely leave my home. So I like to live in my work through very vigorous individuals. And I had that with Seabiscuit and I have that with this wonderful, ebullient, effervescent man, Louis Zamperini.” Author Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken) speaking of her chronic [...]
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“We tend to overestimate what we can do in one year, and underestimate what we can do in ten.” Richard Foster Often times people have great big dreams for the things they want to write. There’s nothing wrong with that, but I’ve found that most writers who’ve found success at the most basic level tend [...]
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“I’ve got so many scars, they’re criss-crossing each other!” Louis Zamperini “As the writer, you need to burn down houses. You need to push characters out of their safe places into the big scary world — and make sure they can never get back. Sure, their stated quest might be to get home, but your [...]
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“I had moved to St. Paul in 1978 and got a job at the Science Museum of Minnesota writing scripts—adapting tales from the Northwest Native Americans for a group of actors attached to the anthropology department. So I began to work in the script form without almost knowing it. In 1980 I sent a play, [...]
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