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Make movies, not scripts – Often, years are spent developing and refining a script which is then shot in weeks; the problem isn’t that the speed of direction kills—it can make for a thrilling spontaneity and immediacy—but that, when the script has been built with such solidity and has become an object of obsession for a year or more, it becomes not the springboard for filmmaking but its objective, and constrains the filmmaker to be its illustrator, which is exactly the feeling conveyed by many films.
Al Pacino: Full Roar (video essay) – ahhahhaahahahhahahahahahaa
These guys out-Bourne all of the Bourne action sequences 6–0 –

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 20.03.2013 – 21.03.2013

Aikamme suuria (keinotekoisia) kysymyksiä: Cheers vai Simpsonit? –
David Mamet: Truth and Melodrama and Phil Spector — The Making Of… – We know any drama ends when we find the answer to the question which gave rise to it. When we discover the answer simultaneously with the hero, the dramatist has done a very good job indeed.
The requisite Wired story on Netflix’s foray into TV producing – The company is serious about making excellent content—but not thematically radical content, because it wouldn’t know how to package that for its customers.