The Secrets To Making A Major Motion Picture Action Scene
The process of creating actions scenes in a major motion picture is highly complex. In this blog, I’ve provided some examples from the...
How To Become Popular Online And Break Into The Entertainment Industry
In order to make it in the entertainment industry, you must be innovative and explore every media avenue possible. One of the best media...
It's all about passion.2
Reminiscent of the Emmy Award–winning TV series Mad Men, a New York ad agency creative team, for whom I directed a TV commercial, told me...
Always pitch/perform to a friendly room
If you audition for a role as an actor, test your comedy routine, pitch an idea to a network or studio, sing or play your song, or show...
NEVER REGRET DOING WHAT YOU’LL LATER REGRET NOT HAVING DONE
Édith Piaf’s iconic song: “Je ne regrette rien”—I regret nothing - is a good rule to live by. Because, in show biz, even though...
Rule 32: You need more than a girl and a gun
The esteemed French critic and film director, Jean-Luc Godard said, “All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.” Here’s a little...
Rule 31: Learn from your forbears
During my childhood, our little movie theater only showed cowboy movies. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all. And who knew who the...
Rule 30: You're either funny or you're not
Comedies rarely win academy awards and few receive critical acclaim. But I hold in the highest regard those performers, writers and...
Here's to two iconic talents - R.I.P.
In the last 2 days, two of my idols in filmmaking left us with a legacy that will remain for decades. George Clayton Johnson wrote two...
Rule 29: If you direct all the principle photography, the studio can' fire you.
By Directors Guild contract, I had ten weeks to deliver my cut of Spy Hard. At the insistence of my exec, I handed in an eighty-page list...
