While Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff is wearing #16 in real life Super Bowl today, the above photo is actor Warren Beatty wearing #16 and playing in the fictitious Super Bowl from the movie Heaven Can Wait. Crazy coincidence—especially since the movie was in theaters 40 years ago and the uniforms are pretty similar. […]
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Since the Super Bowl is tomorrow I thought I’d try to find a quote that tied filmmaking and football together. Mission accomplished from not only a former college football player but one who has a film up for seven Oscars this year— including Best Picture. “A lot of the things I’ve learned, I learned from […]
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In a 1981 New York Times article, Yale professor Harold Bloom was one of the authors asked what books he would have liked to have written. Here’s an excerpt of his answer: “I like to keep good books, and I would not want one of mine to elbow Mark Twain or Melville off the shelf. […]
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“I try to make my screenplays as readable an experience as I can.” William Goldman Both Aaron Sorkin and Tony Gilroy talk about one of the important things they learned personally from William Goldman was trying to give the reader of their scripts the same experience emotionally as they would get from watching the movie. […]
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“I try to make my screenplays as readable an experience as I can.” William Goldman Both Aaron Sorkin and Tony Gilroy talk about one of the important things they learned personally from William Goldman was trying to give the reader of their scripts the same experience emotionally as they would get from watching the movie. […]
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“I was so programmed to fail. I had shown no signs of talent as a young man. I was an editor at the school literary magazine at Oberlin College, and I would anonymously submit my short stories. When the other editors – two brilliant girls – would read them, they would say, ‘We can’t possibly […]
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“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, no, I went to films.” Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino “Ang Lee was in my class. Another person instrumental in my filmmaking was the great cinematographer Ernest Dickerson.” Spike Lee on the benefits going to NYU film school with talented classmates NOTE: Like my […]
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“I graduated [from film school in] 2016 with $330,000 worth of debt and I’m on the road to paying it back.” Writer/director Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) WTF with Marc Maron podcast December 31, 2018 I’ve never heard of a $330,000 student loan for film school, so I’m just going to let this one sentence […]
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“If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing one song—one song that people would remember before you’re dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth. One song that would sum you […]
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