The Question We All Secretly Ask
Success has an interesting way of disguising itself. When we're young, we often imagine it wearing someone else's face. We want someone else's career, someone else's confidence, someone else's life. For years, I wanted to be Steven Spielberg. Not just make movies like him. I wanted his life. It wasn't until I began teaching filmmaking that a single question from one of my students completely changed the way I thought about creativity—and ultimately about my own life. This isn
WHY I RARELY GO TO THE MOVIES ANYMORE
I used to live for Friday night movie premieres. I don't anymore. This isn't because I've stopped loving cinema. Quite the opposite. I've spent nearly thirty years studying storytelling, and somewhere along the way I realized I wasn't falling in love with new movies the way I used to. Here's why.
MICHAEL CLAYTON AND HOW A MASTER USES IMAGE SYSTEMS
An image system is an image or a motif that is repeated during a film. The audience is watching it but they’re not aware of it. This is...
FILM LANGUAGE: The Close Up
I often tell my students that learning film is like learning a foreign language. The choices you make with the camera can speak volumes....
One-Point Perspective
A Director's job is to make you look at the world in a different way.
