January 2012
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“Spend less time fantasizing about ‘success’ and way more time making...”
– Merlin Mann
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“The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.”
– La règle du jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir
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December 2011
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“Sometimes when you’re heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you...”
– Martin Scorsese
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“When you tell the truth you connect to other people.”
– Andrea Dorfman
“The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.”
– Terry Gilliam
November 2011
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“while your imagination can sometimes be limitless, as a producer you have to...”
– Vince Gilligan
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“if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up with a lot of analysis and...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary, which yes, of course you should watch (via lonelysandwich)
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“Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your...”
– Maciej Ceglowski
October 2011
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“If I can make about five good scenes and not annoy the audience, it’s an...”
– Howard Hawks
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“If you are making a record you are the one saying ‘action’, and you are the one...”
– Tom Waits
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“Good interface design is as transparent as possible, because I don’t want to...”
– William Gibson on The Setup
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“for a long time I thought my biggest heist was fooling everyone into believing...”
– Miranda July
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“The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and...”
– Martin Scorsese
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“The delight we find in what we do is in some way lost in the moment, but...”
– Frank Chimero (For Steve)
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“I have never owned any computers other than Apple, having started with an Apple...”
– William Gibson
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“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it...”
– Steve Jobs - 1955-2011
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“Be yourself; find your style, your way; find the border and cross it, or else...”
– Béla Tarr
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“it’s very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which...”
– Charlie Kaufman
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September 2011
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Interesting Films at the 31st Atlantic Film...
Here are some films that look interesting1 to me at the upcoming Atlantic Film Festival which happens from September 15-24. Every year it’s a challenge to decide what to see. My general rule-of-thumb is to try to go for the more obscure, since higher-profile films will usually get a limited release or show up later on DVD. It’s hard to narrow things down, but here are ten.
Afghan Luke
Mike...
August 2011
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– Steve Jobs (via No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome | 43 Folders)
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“Your serial numbers can no longer be tiny, your error messages can no longer be...”
– Seth Godin
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“The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of...”
– Raymond Chandler on Writers in Hollywood (Chandler on H’Wood)
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“I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio...”
– Roger Ebert
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“But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don’t...”
– Errol Morris
July 2011
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“It’s so satisfying to get from the beginning to the end, from a shaky nothing...”
– Louis C.K., found via jimray. (via viafrank)
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