Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)
I didn’t know what you couldn’t do. I didn’t deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, ‘Why not?’ There is a great gift that ignorance has to bring to anything, you know. That was the gift I brought to [Citizen] Kane… ignorance.
Orson Welles on Work-Life Balance and the Gift of Ignorance (1960)
David Fincher and his designers discuss the Dragon Tattoo titles and design
It’s got to move the heart, or the mind, or the groin. It’s got to engage you on some other part of your being than just your eyes.
— David Fincher
There were other things that were tangential and totally foreign to the final, but you’ve got to hit all of those dead ends in order to find something different. You’ve got to go down that road and fail – a lot.
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I generate a lot of failures, but there’s usually a grain of something interesting when you take a chance, and after a while, all those parts and pieces can add up to something interesting.
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I mean, it’s not that difficult to make a pretty picture. It’s much more difficult to do something that’s a little different while remaining perfectly appropriate and authentic, and that’s what we were after.
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The closer you can get to something that’s authentic and appropriate – if you have good reasons for your decisions and can speak about your ideas as solutions – the easier it may be for someone to accept something they’ve never seen before.
— Neil Kellerhouse
Pixar Story Basics
Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” … — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories.
Direction is a matter of emphasis. In telling a story, the task of the director is to emphasize what is significant by under-emphasizing what is less so. The actors’ performances, the camera’s coverage of the performances, and the film editor’s reconstruction of these during post-production: all are designed to make certain things more significant than others to the audience.
Source: keithcalder
Best advise I got when I was trying to make Brothers McMullen. ‘There are two types of pain. The pain of regret and the pain of hard work.’
Source: twitter.com
Rob Legato, Jacob Rosenberg, Vincent Laforet, and Sharlto Copley discuss how technology is changing the way movies are made.
Source: blog.vincentlaforet.com
Ira Glass talks about his experience in producing Sleepwalk with Me.
Source: gointothestory.blcklst.com
J.C. Chandor discusses making Margin Call.
I like sort of unfinished sentences. You know that the actor sort of has a moment, and often times that sort of moment is actually what’s almost more important than the words to a certain extent.
