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“It’s Just a Movie.”
One of my favorite professors when I attended UCLA film school showed us the following short film. When it was over, he said something along the lines of, “When you’re worrying about your films, remember… It’s just a movie.” — Meaning, when you put your film into perspective with everything else going on in the universe, you realize it isn’t as significant as you thought it was… it’s just a movie. Whenever I find myself worrying about a script, an edit, etc I remember my professor’s advice, and you should too.
Interview with screenwriter Sheldon Turner
Interview with screenwriter David Goyer
Interview with screenwriter/director Paul Haggis
Advice from Raimi, Del Toro, Tarantino and Rodriguez
Directors Sam Raimi, Guillermo Del Toro, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez give aspiring filmmakers some words of advice.
The Power of Green Screens
Watch and be amazed at just how far technology has come.
A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 after the page break.
The Birth of Cinema
Here’s a history lesson on the birth of cinema. Watch it, learn it, love it.
Short film spotlight: Robert Rodriguez’s Bedhead
Bedhead is a 1991 short family-comedy-fantasy film directed and co-written by Robert Rodriguez. Made while he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin, Rodriguez shot the film with his brothers and sisters as actors and with his family and friends as crew. The short film was then entered into several competitive film festivals, where it won cash prizes, money that Rodriguez then used to produce his first feature film, El Mariachi.
Robert Rodriguez - Film is Dead
Part 1 of 2
Part two after the break.
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