January 2009
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“So watch this film, and look at all those great shots. And they used a BOLEX. A...”
– Prof. Lau, before screening Yellow Earth for Chinese Film class.
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“In the book, Theo is actually a professor. I know what you’re thinking:...”
– Prof. Rutsky, after showing of Children of Men. I miss this guy.
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“I will never be an extra AGAIN. I saw some 30-somethings there, and I thought...”
– Richard. He’s a bit dramatic.
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I hate it when I do something complicated on final...
I should’ve written down steps.
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“I’m in a world of shit, yes. But I am alive, and I am not afraid.”
– Full Metal Jacket.
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internships
I’m procrastinating on this internship application. There are just some parts that I can’t fill out like “career objective.”
I don’t know what I want to do. I was hoping the internship would help me figure that out. There’s stuff I like to do because it’s fun and then there’s the stuff that’s much harder, yet so much more rewarding. It can be...
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“You are not on the list because you are flawed. Because you are angry. And weak....”
– Mikhail, “LOST.”
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forgot this happened in class. just found it in my...
[After read-through.]
Prof: The stabbing in the club seems a bit dramatic.
Student: I was actually at a club in Oakland where a girl got stabbed...I just drew from that.
Prof: Oh...well then...keep it in the script!
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John August On Audition Scenes →
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walpaper:
“…A smart writer should also volunteer to write special scenes just for auditions. Sometimes they’re cut-down and rearranged versions of scenes from the script, but it’s also an opportunity to just come up with something new. On movies in which I’m involved with casting, I’ll generally give the casting director specially-prepared sides a few days before auditions...
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3rd rock from the sun
Physics prof.: What did you think of my book?
Dick: As bathroom fare? A triumph.
Forgot how funny this show is.
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“You have to know all the technical crap as well as how to smell out the...”
– Jerry Lewis, “The Total Film-Maker” (via shutupweirdo) (via lhh)
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overheard at prop shop yard sale
Buyer: Oh look at this mailbox, how lovely!
Seller: Bruce Springsteen [or someone else I can't remember the name] put a letter in it in a music video.
Buyer: OH WOW!
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Mom: Let's go see Slamdunk Millionaire.
Me: It's Slumdog...But you just gave me an idea for a parody.
Dad: Your Mom is always thinking about basketball. Food and basketball.
[Mom hits Dad on the shoulder.]
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Jett Travolta
Woke up to find my parents watching a Today show segment on the death of Jett Travolta. They’ve been super nice to me, sometimes being more affectionate than usual. They say that it’s because I’m rarely home. I’m in San Francisco usually and that they just miss me and are glad that I’m home in so cal.
Leave it to a celebrity’s kid’s death to help my...
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Valkyrie
Just got back from the theatre.
There was this one shot. I’m going to be vague…Very simple over the shoulder with the background out of focus. The shoulder the back of the head, the neck was all in focus; everything else was a blur. It was so fucking beautiful, it brought a tear to my eye. I cry easily though, so…Anyway, the composition was just so simple, and he could have done...
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Watch“The Making of The Shining” by Vivian Kubrick.
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Anyone else love Steve Zahn?
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God yes, he was the only actor that made “Sahara” bearable. Oh and Dwight Schrute.
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