Clapper's Canvas by Diamond dj4357

bradenclapper — 2025-09-16 20:45:14 UTC

"There's really no movie until you have the money to pay for it." -Patrick Goldstein

bradenclapper — 2025-09-16 20:58:25 UTC

"We had no idea what we were getting into." -Graham King

bradenclapper — 2025-09-16 21:01:00 UTC

'Midnight in Paris' almost didn't happen in Paris because the film was too expensive.

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:31:27 UTC

"As far as financing goes, when you go into a movie that big and that ambitious, you're always gonna face hurdles, but regardless, when you come out the other end, to me and the investors, it's more than just the dollar." -Graham King

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:33:11 UTC

"Take some antacid." -Mike de Luca

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:38:18 UTC

"But at the same time, you as a producer are having to deal with the art of the possible. At some point, you want to move on." -Patrick Goldstein

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:42:11 UTC

"Well, I don't know if this sounds narcissistic, but it's hard not to read your own life into material sometimes, because you find that what moves you is something that you relate to." -Mike de Luca

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:44:52 UTC

"I mean you build a relationship, and it's about producer and director knowing each other's boundaries and having the chemistry. And some directors, there are producers, and they get involved in all aspects of the set." -Graham King

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:49:55 UTC

"I have been in a position where the PGA took Brad Pitt and Brad Grey up for the The Departed, and I completely forget to thank him at the Oscars and it became a lot of problems. And these guys had a chance to win an Oscar and I think they should have." -Graham King

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 02:56:08 UTC

Graham King recalls talking with Scorsese while shooting "The Aviator."

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:03:14 UTC

"The pitch that you're talking about is Ben Mezrich wrote, a 14-paged book proposal for his publisher Random House about the origins of Facebook and the friction that took place at the beginning." -Aaron Sorkin

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:13:15 UTC

"And when I wrote that script I was naive enough to think that it would be made instantly, changed my life forever, and I could write anything I wanted to in Hollywood. I certainly learned better than that." -David Seidler

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:19:23 UTC

Lisa Cholodenko discusses how a simple conversation created a film cornerstone.

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:21:30 UTC

"So you go on and on and you keep writing drafts and you keep trying to make them tight, and meanwhile, you're waiting for your partner to come to the next coast, or be able to travel, and things marinate and start the truth and the falsity of what you've written, the authenticity, the level of understanding of your characters, and of your plot, I think that's something that really time is the thing that brings that in to focus." -Lisa Cholodenko

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:23:48 UTC

"I mean I sort of spent ten years sitting alone in my apartment in Brooklyn writing, and so to be invited to come up aboard this incredible company and just work collaboratively with other writers, I just thought, "I have to do this.'" -Michael Arndt

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:24:57 UTC

"And it's a great, great thing, because I think as a storyteller, you're always looking for a problem to give to your character that the audience doesn't see a clear, easy solution to." -Mihael Arndt

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:26:41 UTC

"When you're writing nonfiction, particularly nonfiction about people who are still alive, and in this case they are young people, you have your own moral compass that says, "First, do no harm." You're not going to play it fast and loose with the lives of real people." -Aaron Sorkin

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:28:53 UTC

"Charlie Mitchell: Well, it's sort of the basic writer's tenant, right? You're coming from mystery, complete mystery in this case of what actually happened. But something happened. Something made this man of promise, everybody said that he was very bright, had a brilliant future ahead of him, and he withdrew completely from the world."

-Charlie Mitchell

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:31:24 UTC

Anne Thompson: "I love to know how you write, literally, physically."

Aaron Sorkin: "The most important thing for me is getting started. The difference between being on page two and page nothing is life and death."

Learning From My Peers

bradenclapper — 2025-09-18 03:37:22 UTC

Jaine Dyer did a good job of making a clear and concise Padlet. Very nice!