“{...} As a young editor, I used to get very upset about changing cuts. And it was really hard to let go, and to allow a director's input. And then I had a really epiphany moment – I saw a film about Picasso. And he did these two strokes of his paintbrush, and he made the perfect chicken... And then he starts meddling with it. And you're kinda going “No! Stop! I could sell that for half a million! It's a perfect chicken...” But he just does another thing, and before you know it, it's a centurion... It's even better... So, from that, I learned the lesson that, actually, it's sort of keeping the clay wet and moving things around to try and serve the whole structure. Not just being vertical about the edits, but about being horizontal about getting the whole story (and the pace of that story) right, and making sure that the beats land. That's really important. And if you have to sacrifice your “perfect cut”, then that's what you must do. You just to be clever enough to know whether it's a chicken or a centurion that you need.”
marți, 30 martie 2021
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"You've got to have the work ethic that makes you show up.”
“I always believe that it's very important to turn up at {your} desk, whether you feel like it or not, whether you have ideas or not... You've got to have the work ethic that makes you show up.”
"Know what you know" before you "write what you know"
“They say the most important thing is to write what you know. But there are two big problems with that... First of all, it's not enough to write what you know. You have to know interesting things. So you have to put yourself into a world where you have experiences. And then you also have to know what you know. And I think that that's even the hardest thing. Writing what you know is fine, but knowing what you know is the key to actually writing or creating any piece of art, because you have to know what it is that is driving you to do this completely narcissistic and a-social act of creating, forcing your thoughts and feelings upon a world that does not care. And you have to honestly figure out what it is you care about.”
luni, 2 martie 2020
Before ”Ferris Bueller's Day Off”, ”The Silence of the Lambs” and ”Philadelphia”...
