On Having Talent Mar 10, 2011 Personal Talent is not when your friends tell you they love your work, but when people who don’t like you have to admit it’s good. Via The Year in Pictures: Number 2 on Milton Glaser’s list “Ten Things I Have Learned” Mar 10, 2011 Personal If you have a choice never have a job. Milton Glaser Jeff Bridges on Starting from Zero Mar 10, 2011 Personal In acting you’ll maybe take the first take, and it’s very fresh. And you’ll say wow, that felt like real life! So now let’s recreate that, and do it Rob Wallin on Consumers and Producers Mar 9, 2011 Personal Some people are consumers by nature; they consume vast quantities of knowledge purely for learning’s sake. Others are producers; they consume An incredible urge Mar 8, 2011 Personal I have an incredible urge to say ‘fuck all this development/waiting/raising non-existent funds/latte filmmaking’ and just grab 10 people and go out From a Student Mar 5, 2011 Teaching I got this email from a student: This was a tough assignment, and one that I’ve been bitching loudly about for the past week - and perhaps loudest The Red Shovel Mar 5, 2011 Personal Red Shovel (1992) by Leighton Pierce One of my favourite films Peter Jackson on Digital Filmmaking Mar 5, 2011 Personal “There are no excuses anymore. If people really want to make movies, they can go out and do it.” — Peter Jackson in Reuters Francis Ford Coppola on the Future of Filmmaking in 1990 Mar 5, 2011 Personal “To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, some… just people who normally wouldn’t make movies are Now that is conflict Mar 2, 2011 Personal “He’s confronted with the wrenching knowledge that he might have to kill his son to save him from an even worse fate. But he hopes for something Glen Hansard on the Making of Once Mar 2, 2011 Personal “So we made a few basic decisions, and one of the basic decisions that worked best was to keep the cameras on a long lens, so you’d have two cameras When sports make for interesting new ideas Mar 1, 2011 Personal The playmaker: The one that sets things up for others to score Frank Darabont’s description in Shawshank Redemption Feb 28, 2011 Writing Notes “Dark as midnight. Concrete walls rise on both sides. If you imagine them as two huge slices of bread, the meat of this particular sandwich is about Mystery Man on writing action Feb 28, 2011 Writing Notes “Action paragraphs should be 4 lines or fewer. You typically write one paragraph per beat of action, and they should be important actions. I loved Sean Flanigan on process Feb 28, 2011 Personal “As long as people are in the frame I’m pretty happy. You didn’t ask but what I don’t like is big productions, I’m way too impatient to work with On Accident Feb 28, 2011 Personal “She had happened to me and not only that I had happened to her.” — Writer Darrin Strauss’s account of being the accidental cause of someone’s Writing with light Feb 27, 2011 Personal The word “photography” has its roots in Greek, roughly translating to “writing of light.” Just as text is most interesting when free of superfluous Writing Tip Feb 26, 2011 Writing Notes Ask yourself what each of your characters feels towards the other characters. How do the main characters relate to the minor characters? And how Zack Stentz on interaction Feb 23, 2011 Personal “Every interaction between two people is on some level a negotiation for status.” — Zack Stentz Dialogue is action. Characters use dialogue to get Does anyone know Jan 21, 2011 Personal …a film where an inanimate object is the main character Next page