“For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.” LongStoriesHandsActorsVoiceActingPathHeardProjectsUniqueDevelopingMinoritiesUnique Voices Author:Jimmy Smits
“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.” IfsWayHas BeensHardStoriesMovingFallChallengesPerfectSceneProjectsMoving ForwardHard TimesContinuingTrapsCopingPerfectionismRewritingContinuing On Author:Laini Taylor
“About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.” KnowsWritingYearsStoriesCoursesReadingProjectsYears AgoScriptsProducersExhaustedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Kerry Washington
“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingStoriesWorryIssuesCostProjectsDirectProductionsDo The BestConstraints Author:Jose Padilha
“Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.” PeopleMadeI CanDifferentStoriesGrowsParticularAmbitionProjectsLet MeDrivenBackgroundsFilmmakerBeing The BestDocumentariesBest FilmDifferent Backgrounds Author:Lucy Walker
“The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.” WantTryingStoriesForgetRiskProjectsOriginalsIntentionBetrayalBetraySuggestionsBeneficial Author:Lars von Trier
“I really wanted to work with Luc Besson. I'm a big fan of his. Did you ever see 'The Professional.' It was very violent. But a fabulous story, a fabulous movie, very well done. So that and two or three other projects of his that I've seen, I just thought if I had a shot to work with him I wanted to do it.” IfsWellsTwoDoneStoriesBigsWantedThreeFansProjectsShotsViolentFabulousWell Done Author:Morgan Freeman
“I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.” PeopleTryingMomentsStoriesMovingReadyProjectsScriptsLive In The Moment Author:David Heyman
“As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!” IfsWayLooksStoriesProcessJourneyProjectsCreatingChiefsNarrativeOutcomesWowOddsGangYarn Author:Tom Peters
“If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.” PeopleIfsDoeRealStoriesMightCoursesSimpleNumbersProjectsMassConvincedProofTechniqueAstronomyFlyingStorytellingAliensNarrativeExplanationSuspectsLinkedTriggersLarge NumbersPersuasiveAbductionAlien Abduction Author:Bryan Appleyard