“I’m nobody’s little weasel.” - Amélie, Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain.
Things I didn't know: James Cameron filmed "The Abyss" (1989) inside a decommissioned nuclear reactor somewhere in South Carolina that he filled with millions of gallons of water.
It kinda makes up for his casting of Chris Elliott.
Also: During the rigorous and problematic shoot, the cast and crew began calling the film by various derogatory names such as “Son Of Abyss”, “The Abuse” and “Life’s Abyss And Then You Dive”. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio reportedly suffered a physical and emotional breakdown because she was pushed so hard on the set, and Ed Harris had to pull over his car at one time while driving home, because he burst into spontaneous crying. (via)
Can another kababayan please confirm that there's a Filipina aboard the U.S.S. Kelvin in the opening scene of "Star Trek"? Salamat gid!
(via inothernews)
EDIT: The actress playing the Kelvin Helmsmen is Freda Foh Shen…can’t confirm that she is Filipina…she’s here on IMDB.
I was going to say how I won’t be watching this movie, for the sole reason being that the animals look like the taxidermic versions of their real selves. I was going to then liken this technique to making a weird movie starring a lifeless human carcass going on capers and generally being mischievous. Then I was going to end on how much a stupid, creepy idea that was, and how much of a failure the concept is… then it occurred to me that I was describing Weekend At Bernie’s.
lol.
WHY DID I EAT THAT, IT’S LIKE A BABY IN MY STOMACH.
Todd, the animation supervisor, after eating a burrito.
God, the animators and directors eat the heaviest things then get so tired in the afternoon, lol.
took a green screen to the laundromat, lol.
It was 12” x 20”, and I still had a hard time fitting it into the industrial washer.
get out of the car. get out of the car. get out as if your life depended on it.
I was given the task at work to take this muddled up “script” and format it into a real, legible, readable script into Final Draft.
Transcribing it (while trying hard not to add my own flourishes) made me realize how much fun I have writing. Even if it’s not my own stuff, just deciphering someone else’s work and trying to make it better. It reminded me of all these ideas I had but never made time for.
I think it’s time to give writing another shot.
Stanley Kubrick’s DGA D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech
And I believe Steven [Spielberg] summed it up about as profoundly as you can. He thought the most difficult and challenging thing about directing a film was getting out of the car.This quote comes to mind every single time I’m about to shoot something or embark on a creative project of any kind, because it’s so specific and seemingly reductive, yet so universal to the difficulty of making anything: the hardest thing about a project is starting it.
So, at the risk of soapboxing, I propose a mantra for myself and for you, if you have any use for it:
Get out of the car.
