Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
On The Job of an Editor You have the courage of your convictions. When you’re editing you have to make thousands of decisions every day and if you dither over them all the time, you’ll never get...
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Catching Lightning In a Bottle
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
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Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
Collaborating on The Score I was kind of the cook and all these people were bringing the ingredients. Allowing for Improvisation Improv only works as a tool, not as a free for all. The Guidelines for...
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Things I’ve Learned As A MovieMaker
Sandra Oh, Sheila Kelley and Daryl Hannah in Dancing at the Blue Iguana. On Making Movies Always make movies for yourself. Never try to second-guess the public in any sort of way because you will...
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James Gray Goes the Distance
Director James Gray with Victor Arnold on the set of The Yards. 31-year-old director James Gray rose to indie success when his first feature film, Little Odessa, attained critical success. Though it’s...
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Mythology and Moviemaking
Like the tropical nightmares of Joseph Conrad, the films of John Boorman lead us down rivers-real and imagined-into the heart of what ails us, and the quest for a remedy. Hell In The Pacific, Point...
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E. Elias Merhige’s Power of Unflinching Belief
E. Elias Merhige on the set of Shadow of the Vampire. Though his latest film, Shadow of the Vampire, deals with the undead, director E. Elias Merhige depends on the living for much of his success. In...
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Ang Lee is Changing the Rules
Courtesy of the Teegarden/Nash collection Having enchanted us for a decade with a string of lyrical, exquisitely-crafted domestic dramas, including Sense and Sensibility, Eat Drink Man Woman and The...
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Ang Lee: Things I’ve Learned As A Moviemaker
On Auterism What does auteur mean? One who repeats himself? On Subverting Genres Whenever I do “genre” I try to bend it or mix in something else to find something refreshing. On Making ‘Kung Fu’...
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David Lynch’s Empire
The only predictable thing about David Lynch is that he is always looking to surprise us. Since 2001’s Mulholland Drive, Lynch, 60, has been seeking new creative outlets for his work. His Website,...
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Things I’ve Learned: Gus Van Sant’s Six Golden Rules of Moviemaking
Gus Van Sant is one of America’s most heralded, iconic independent auteurs. Based in Portland, Oregon, the low-key Van Sant has written, directed, produced and/or edited a surprising number of iconic...
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Dern on Lynch
On the meaning of Inland Empire: We know [Lynch] is a non-conformist and we know he lives in the world of the abstract and we know he loves to experiment. But David is not an elitist. He doesn’t know...
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Let Fury Have the Hour: A Lesson in Making Fire and Creative Response
“Let Fury Have the Hour”poster by Shepard Fairey Twenty-five hundred days. The number feels heavy, eternal. If I divide it into years—seven—it becomes plainer still that the journey to transform the...
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Luca Guadagnino: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Luca Guadagnino’s movies are inspired by his life. In lieu of film school, the director learned his craft from directors like Bernardo Bertolucci and Valerio Adami at dinner parties hosted by Italian...
View ArticleElon Musk’s Crash Course Director Does a Deep Dive Into Tesla’s Self-Driving...
Director Emma Schwartz raises questions about Tesla’s self-driving cars in Elon Musk’s Crash Course, a documentary she made with The New York Times Presents that’s currently streaming on Hulu. “With...
View Article‘First, They Have to Understand’: Mind Over Murder Director on ‘Surprising’...
Director Nanfu Wang knows that in order to empathize with the Beatrice Six, viewers must first understand the subject’s motivations and unique backstory. That’s the challenge at the heart of the story...
View ArticleWhere The Crawdads Sing Director Olivia Newman Was ‘Terrified’ to Read the Book
Where the Crawdads Sing director Olivia Newman was “terrified” to read the beloved crime-infused love story by Delia Owens. Why? Because she knew that once she read it, she would fall in love with it....
View ArticleHow ‘Skin & Bone’ Director Eli Powers Got Amanda Seyfried to Star in His...
Eli Powers’ long journey to getting Amanda Seyfried to star in his captivating short film, “Skin & Bone,” began in 2014 on the Boston set of Ted 2. The psychological horror short, which Powers...
View ArticleMy Old School: Alan Cumming and Jono McLeod Retell the High School Legend of...
Jono McLeod’s new documentary My Old School reunites his former Bearsden Academy classmates to share their memories of the Glasgow high school’s most famous pupil: Brandon Lee, a man in his early 30s...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Katie Holmes and Aaron Eckhart in Thank You for Smoking. Photo: Dale Robinette/Fox Searchlight Trust your script. It’s easy to fall in love with something that’s “set funny.” Trust the document that...
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