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“ I love working with directors who deal with the whole process as opposed to just shooting the film. [Soderbergh] never...
04/04/2026

“ I love working with directors who deal with the whole process as opposed to just shooting the film. [Soderbergh] never looked at the monitor which I thought was a great thing and unusual. He was always watching the action. He was always watching the interaction of the actors.” —Steve Zahn “[Alexander Payne] doesn’t watch the monitor. It’s fun to have a director there when you’re doing it.” —Jack Nicholson “When directors are “a block away [behind the monitors], you’re not sure that they’re seeing what’s really going on, because they’re looking at this little screen. With Steven [Soderbergh] being right there with you, it’s not hard to believe if he says, ? got it,’ or ? didn’t get it.’ You believe him.” —Don Cheadle “[Milos Forman] would sit right next to the lens and completely concentrate on you so that he cut everything else out of the moment but you. And he was that way each day for six and a half months on Amadeus.” —F. Murray Abraham

The director should be realistic about what will and will not work in his case. Use common sense. If these actor-oriented processes are not your cup of tea, perhaps it’s best to be honest, open, and sincere about your limitations and stay out of the actors’ way. They’ll do a better job for you on their own than they ever will if you intrude onto their turf without understanding their craft.

01/03/2026

The artist Saul Steinberg said, “What we respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations.” It’s often what an artist chooses to leave out that makes the art interesting,rather than AI ing of including everything or summarising everything the method pf killing originality in chase of output

To bolster creativity one needs to be allowed to make mistakes,experiment and explore possibilities.All the while you must embrace your limitations and keep moving.
Creativity or attempt of it in itself intellectual bravery.

Einstein said, “I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn’t going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.”

Actors and writers tend to be “right brain” oriented. Directors tend to be “left brain” oriented. But to be a good direc...
05/12/2025

Actors and writers tend to be “right brain” oriented. Directors tend to be “left brain” oriented. But to be a good director, a director with intuitive abilities as well as leadership skills and the focus and concentration it takes to tell a story with a camera, requires a person to be equally balanced in the left brain and the right brain. A director needs to be able to step back and see whether a scene or a casting or a camera angle is working.

—MovieMaker Magazine


“the piece is moving in proportion to how much the author can leave out. A good writer gets better only by learning to ...
11/07/2025

“the piece is moving in proportion to how much the author can leave out.
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.
What is the story?The story is the essential progression ojincidents that occur to the hero in pursuit of his one goal.

The point, as Aristotle told us, is what happens to the hero . . . not what happens to the writer.

One does not have to be able to see to write such a story.
One has to be able to think.

Screenwriting is a craft based on logic. It consists of the assiduous application of several very basic questions: What does the hero want? What hinders him from getting it? What happens if he does not get it?”

Excerpt From
On directing film
Mamet, David

..on the best of movies a third intention emerges, which neither the writer nor the director can foresee. Moviemaking wo...
27/04/2025

..on the best of movies a third intention emerges, which neither the writer nor the director can foresee. Moviemaking works very much like an orchestra: the addition of various harmonies can change, enlarge, and clarify the nature of the theme.
In that sense, a director is “writing” when he makes a picture. But I think it’s important to keep the words specific. Writing is writing. Sometimes the writer includes directions in the script. He gives long descriptions of characters or of physical settings. Close-ups, long shots, and other camera directions may be written into the script.
I read these carefully, because they are reflections of the writer’s intention. I may follow them literally or find a completely different way of expressing the same intention. Writing is about structure and words. But the process I’ve been describing—of the sum being greater than the parts—that’s shaped by the director. They’re different talents.

Excerpt From
Making Movies
Sidney Lumet

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“The w^ork of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. The work on the set is nothing. Al...
10/03/2025

“The w^ork of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. The work on the set is nothing. All you have to do on the set is stay awake, follow your plans, help the actors be simple, and keep your sense of humor. The film is directed in the making of the shot list. The work on the set is simply to record what has been chosen to be recorded. It is the plan that makes the movie.”

Mamet, David



Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manif...
29/11/2024

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work.

The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.

The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people.
Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time



““Screenwriting is a craft based on logic. It consists of the collection of several very basic questions: What does the ...
29/02/2024

““Screenwriting is a craft based on logic. It consists of the collection of several very basic questions: What does the hero want? What hinders him from getting it? What happens if he does not get it?”
-Mamet

“There is a wonderful book called The Profession of the Stage Director, by Georgi Tovstonogov, who writes that a director may fall into one of the deepest pits by rushing immediately to visual or pictorial solutions.”

“This concept was also stated by Hemingway as, “Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.”

“A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains. What is the story? The story is the essential progression ojincidents that occur to the hero in pursuit of his one goal.”

The point, as Aristotle told us, is what happens to the hero . . . not what happens to the writer.
One does not have to be able to see to write such a story. One has to be able to think.


”The meaning of life is to find what you are passionate about. The purpose of life is to share it with others”You will o...
22/08/2023

”The meaning of life is to find what you are passionate about. The purpose of life is to share it with others”

You will only invest maximum effort in to things that really excite you - which means it won’t feel like ”work” but a natural calling

Why postpone our dreams and desires? Time here is brief. Much shorter than we tend to think.

I wake up every day with a slight feeling of urgency for the things I want to accomplish, but just like anyone else at times get drawn in to the matrix of life in this modern society.

We are the architects of our lives, so don’t fall into a mirage by giving that power away to someone else! Life is now. In this moment. Not tomorrow or in a couple of years

Get lost to find yourself.

”The meaning of life is to find what you are passionate about. The purpose of life is to share it with others” You will ...
22/08/2023

”The meaning of life is to find what you are passionate about. The purpose of life is to share it with others”

You will only invest maximum effort in to things that really excite you - which means it won’t feel like ”work” but a natural calling

All hearts or nothing

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