Thursday, March 11, 2010

Focus on the donut


Here's something I learned from Eli Roth (whom he learned from David Lynch):
"Keep your eye on the donut, not the hole"
 Here's the direct quote:
"David told me that my job as director was to tune out all the behind the scenes drama and make sure that I'm getting the footage I need to make the scene work."
To me, the most important element is the story. The whole team's mission is the story; to get it right. The rest is bullshit.

Also on a similar note, too many people (especially beginner's) are so wrapped up in the technical aspects (digital or film, 16:9 or 4:3, red one or panasonic, bogen or velbon...) of filmmaking that they forget the important part: the story.

I'm not saying that the technical stuff is not important, it is, but let's look at it from a different perspective:

In books you don't really care if Stephen King used a word processor or a typewriter, or if The Beatles used pro tools or an analog recording system... All I care about is the music and the story in the book. I care about the donut, not the hole. 

hmmm donuts...

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