Filmmakers
topic on 3 shows · 7 statements across 4 episodes
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Hammer: Filmmakers effectively run large temporary startups with external funding
“They're running these pretty big temporary startups that get funding from the outside world. It's like they get distribution from someone else, not themselves.”
Hammer: Great leaders have the courage to espouse counter-consensus worldviews
“To answer the question more precisely, I think it's this, the willingness and the courage to espouse a specific kind of worldview that perhaps is a little bit counter, but sends in some tension to the dominant worldview and own that anyways.”
Senra: Emerging technology will enable one-person filmmakers
“Especially with all these new technologies, basically you're gonna have one person like filmmakers, because they're gonna use all this technology.”
DuVernay: Great filmmaking relies on story and performance over technical mastery
“That the core of what made a great filmmaker was, did you know the story? Not did you know the lens, did you know, the technical aspects, but there are a lot of filmmakers out there who are story and performance focused and less technically focused.”
DuVernay: Filmmakers watch the audience, not the screen, during screenings
“I mean, any filmmaker that's in a screening of their films not watching the film, they're watching the audience.”
DuVernay: Filmmakers get more creative leeway when spending less money
“You get more leeway when you are spending less money. So, I'd rather have leeway and less money.”
Shyamalan: A filmmaker's blind spots and quirks are their greatest commercial strengths
“Don't copy me or anybody else, or even try to round off the things that are not great about you. Your blind spots are your strengths. That is why you're not doing this, and you're looking at that, that's part of what makes you so beautiful. To concentrate on t…”