Coen Brothers' "investor trailer" for BLOOD SIMPLE

with Bruce Campbell !

Pixar's 22 storytelling principles

visualized by DrCraww

Joe Carnahan on making indie movies in H'wood

from CINEFIX, via NoFilmSchool

Concentration beats Inspiration

...most of the time (according to Salman Rushdie)

Steve McCurry's tips for frame composition

via Bright Side

Jodie Foster on acting commitment

“I’d really like to do something where I had to learn something hard. Like, learn to be a violinist. Or to be an Olympic athlete. Or speak Polish. I’d like to commit six months to really living in the world of something obsessively. I don’t know why I want to do that but I do. I’d like to just learn something.” (Jodie Foster)

Colin Farrell on acting the absurd

"I did go, “How the f–k do you say this s–t and be in these situations and have them be normal and not absurd?” But I had a bit of that with In Bruges as well. It was such extreme stuff and you’re going, “How do you inhabit this and make it seem like it’s run-of-the-mill or natural?” But it just ends up happening." (about the acting in "The Lobster")

Kubrick's "Notes on Film"

"The important thing in films is not so much to make successes as not to make failures, because each failure limits your future opportunities to make the films you want to make."

Costume apocalypse, now!

According to Costume Designer Kelli Jones, "the [STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON] script was literally changing the entire time we were shooting, I mean literally the entire time. There would be days where I would get a call on Friday and they were like 'oh by the way we've moved the pool party scene to Monday' and the pool party scene had like 400 people and I needed to get 80s bathing suits, so there wasn't a single weekend where me and my team were not working. It was insane!"

Long live the Hunger !

Tony Robbins' sage opinion

"(...) you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world (...)"

gently warns Paul Kalanithi

Listen to your 80-year-old self...

advices Susan O'Malley

”You need someone with the guts to tell you that when you think you’re doing enough, you’re not doing enough...

”...You could be working harder. And remember that nobody owes you anything. If you can just remember that, then you’ll never take anything for granted, and you never stop working.” (Jerry Zaks)

"You've got to look out for yourself."

...reminds Robert Herjavec.

”...and nothing but praise NOW...”

Craig Ferguson dixit

”Does this NEED to be said... by ME... right NOW?”

Seneca dixit

”You live as if you were destined to live forever (...). You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals”

Six-word stories...

post-Hemingway...

"Frankly, my dear... I don't give a damn."

+ "Where should I go...? What should I do...?"

Jerry Zaks dixit

”(...) find someone who can help keep you motivated. You need someone with the guts to tell you that when you think you’re doing enough, you’re not doing enough. You could be working harder. And remember that nobody owes you anything. If you can just remember that, then you’ll never take anything for granted, and you never stop working.”

”Creative people say NO”

”Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of finding solutions to problems and problems with those solutions, the work of trial and error, the work of thinking and perfecting, the work of creating. Creating consumes. It is all day, every day. It knows neither weekends nor vacations. It is not when we feel like it. It is habit, compulsion, obsession, vocation. The common thread that links creators is how they spend their time. No matter what you read, no matter what they claim, nearly all creators spend nearly all their time on the work of creation. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.” (Kevin Ashton)

Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN

apud James Franco

Sylvester Stallone on "Rocky"

It was a miracle that it happened the way it did. [...] it is just one of those nice things that happen once in a while, where you just put everything on one roll of the dice and hope it works. I wasn’t confident it was going to work at all. [...] you have hope. But I had to be realistic. It was a very little film, 25-day shoot, under a million bucks. John Avildsen was so brave, and Bill Conti wrote a score that was just so unexpected and so noble. That was the thing about Rocky, there were so many incredible elements that just came together. Garrett Brown had just invented the Steadicam, and it just happened that he lived in Philadelphia. So all these incredible runs up and down those steps and I think some people weren’t aware, but they felt, something was different. How is somebody running at the same speed as Rocky, without the camera jumping up and down? What I’m saying is that so many minor movie miracles happened, and I happened to get pulled along with it.

Jerry Seinfeld on his work perspective

”I fell in love with the work. And the work was joyful... and difficult... and interesting... And that was my focus.”