The worst thing that can happen to a filmmaker is that he is given everything he needs.
Guillermo Del Toro
Production on my next short film, “Vision,” wrapped yesterday in Malibu. Conceived in New York, written and filmed all over Los Angeles, this project is much more personal than my last one. It has given me the opportunity to explore themes I’ve been too scared to tackle before.
It feels great to be done with filming, especially considering I wrote the first draft of the script back in September. Often, it’s the most emotionally draining times that lead to the most creatively fruitful and fulling.
Thank you to all my cast, crew and investors for making this project possible. Now I start the post-production process where I put the skills I’ve learned over the past four months to work.
The first step in my post production process.
I don’t think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel.
Stanley Kubrick
What’s interesting about this whole thing is [this]: a director doesn’t have to be an expert in anything, but he has to know a little bit about everything. That “everything” includes financing and global economics, directing actors, setting up camera and lighting, reading cost reports, moving money around — every little thing you need to know a little bit about.
Nicolas Winding Refn
David Fincher once outlined the four ideal personality traits of a director as belligerence, paranoia, fear of failure and an overwhelming urge to be liked.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
