“What appealed to me on a purely human level, was that this director respected everyone equally, regardless of their rank, status or role in the process.” Cinematographer Tilman Büttner (On director Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov) The last two posts were about shooting a feature film in four days, making a feature film in two days, so why […]
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“Of all the films I ever directed, the one that has survived the longest as a genuine ‘cult classic’ is the one I did the fastest and the cheapest. It only took me two days on a leftover soundstage to shoot principle photography for The Little Shop of Horrors, but it has lived on for […]
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“I’m probably a pretty good example of like, if I’m standing here, any idiot could be up here.” Producer/Writer/Director Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) 2016 SXSW Keynote talk How do you direct feature films in one year? One film at a time. That’s how Joe Swanberg did it. Well, technically it took him 14 months to […]
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“What can you do when you’re absolutely nowhere but feel like you are full of magic and ideas?” Filmmaker Mark Dupass “There’s one thing that keeps coming up to me over and over in my career–this very simple phrase—and I’m going to take a note from motivational speaker Tony Robbins for a second—and were going […]
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“I’ve been around a long enough also to know that careers are peaks and valleys. And it’s just really all about with how much grace and equanimity you can keep walking along in one direction. Whether you’re marching through the valley of the shadow of death or whether you’re at the pinnacle of whatever, it’s […]
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“Taxi Driver would definitely not get off the ground as a feature film today. No way…It costs a lot of money to make movies now. At that time, it cost $1 million to make Taxi Driver, and that was a lot of money for then. Now, it’s all about risk aversion, and the global economy that the […]
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“When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles […]
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“Break on through to the other side…” Jim Morrison You can file this post under “Old dog, New Tricks.” Recently we welcomed a 9-year-old Golden-Lab rescue dog named Ginger into our home. It was just about a year after our 15-year-old Golden Retriever Lucy died, and we still had all of her tug toys and […]
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“The whole goal is to tell our story… Every single day the task of our social media accounts is to help tell the story of what it’s like to be a Clemson Tiger.” Jonathan Gantt Creative Director at Clemson University @ Jonathan_Gantt It’s not only police departments now that have social media departments producing content, colleges athletic […]
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It’s graduation time and if you happen to be receiving your degree from film school or as a TV or electric arts major I have good news for you. In fact, if you’re gradating from high school and have a couple of years of shooting and editing short projects I also have good news for […]
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