MCN Curated Headlines Archive for October, 2014
“The only thing that goes directly on the screen is the dialogue and the narrative structure. You can be a terrible writer, but if you write good dialogue and have a good sense of narrative structure, you can be a good screenwriter and still be functionally illiterate, which a lot of good screenwriters in my experience are.”
David Cronenberg On What Makes A Good Screenwriter
“Seriously, he blows my mind. I’ve never met a human being who was so productive, so energetic. He lived off of four hours sleep and a small catnap in the afternoon. I would never not hear his typewriter. So the sound of the typewriter for me is the most comforting thing. He was tireless.”
Samantha Fuller Talks Samuel Fuller Dad-Doc
“I can think of no other director who collided politics, character, emotion, fashion and form with the same thorny intensity.”
Filmmaker Tom Kalin on Alain Resnais And His Life of Riley
“I always give money to drug addicts. It is a necessary reprieve. No one stops taking drugs ’cos they’ve not got money–they will steal.”
Lucy Kellaway Lunches With Russell Brand
“It’s an example of Aristotle’s theory of ‘surprising inevitability.'”
“The Bookish World Of Birdman” As Seen By Co-Writer Alexander Dinelaris, Jr.
“Plastic surgery is fake. So is the Hollywood fantasy where women over 40 just don’t exist.”
Amanda Hess Sez Renée Zellweger’s Face Is “Too Real”
“Maybe it’s part of our storytelling that we can identify if there an efficiency to the mission, the search, the consequence, the quest.”
Ever-Cool Canuck Keanu On The Nexus Of Consequence In Storytelling
“I identify as a visual journalist and as an artist. I don’t tend to identify myself as an activist or advocate. In my films, I’m really interested in the world that I document, and so there’s open-endedness, and people can come away with different conclusions.”
Documentarians Astra Taylor And Laura Poitras Talk Citizenfour
And – “There are constraints that become blessings. That hotel room is a claustrophobic space where a few people are doing work that will transform everything outside. And then, when we break out, you see the shock waves. But when I first saw the room, my feeling was “White? Really, white?'”
“If your customers pay you quickly, you manage your inventory well, and you’re able to take your time in paying your suppliers, free cash flow can be consistently positive even when net income is not. Which is the kind of business that Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon.”
Amazon’s Latest Earnings Release Shows It’s All About Cash Flow
“Screen critics are always harboring hidden agendas—they’re failed creatives, they’re power mad, they’re looking to fill their otherwise empty lives—but they’re rarely shown to be actually enthusiastic about the things they take in for a living.”
Alison Willmore On The Pans Bestowed Onto Critics Onscreen