Thanks for posting this Ted, it was very inspirational and picked me up. I ESPECIALLY loved what he said about taking showers being the best way to get the ideas and inspiration flowing! I do the exact same thing! And he's right, tub baths don't do it, it has to be a shower "where ideas spark as running water falls upon one’s head" :)
There's two types of folks in this world: those who showers do the trick for, and the ones who need long walks in silence. I am in the second group But yeah, I feel it and know it. It will never be a bath -- but that is what they always show in films: the bath with holding your breath under water. The only idea I found that way was that it was time to get out of the bath and dry off!
I really identify with his philosophy that the filmmaking process, even in the independent world depends too much on money. I like his idea of making smaller and smaller films on smaller and smaller budgets. The trailer had very little dialog, and even those few words are repeated. The visuals are beautiful. The story itself does not pull me in, it is the visuals and the ideas the filmmaker/producer puts forward. Sometimes the reactions of an audience are not what we would expect. When my latest film screened during the Cannes Film Festival, almost the entire front row was French citizens who could be considered legally blind. I was amazed that they stayed for the reception afterwards and said that even though they could not see what was happening on the screen, they loved the film and understood it perfectly. One even said it was "the best film he never saw." My next film will be shot with a cell phone and be on a, yes, micro-budget.
Thanks for posting this Ted, it was very inspirational and picked me up. I ESPECIALLY loved what he said about taking showers being the best way to get the ideas and inspiration flowing! I do the exact same thing! And he's right, tub baths don't do it, it has to be a shower "where ideas spark as running water falls upon one’s head" :)
There's two types of folks in this world: those who showers do the trick for, and the ones who need long walks in silence. I am in the second group But yeah, I feel it and know it. It will never be a bath -- but that is what they always show in films: the bath with holding your breath under water. The only idea I found that way was that it was time to get out of the bath and dry off!
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I’m from Singapore- n never expected to read about a Singaporean film director on substack so thanks for this !
I really identify with his philosophy that the filmmaking process, even in the independent world depends too much on money. I like his idea of making smaller and smaller films on smaller and smaller budgets. The trailer had very little dialog, and even those few words are repeated. The visuals are beautiful. The story itself does not pull me in, it is the visuals and the ideas the filmmaker/producer puts forward. Sometimes the reactions of an audience are not what we would expect. When my latest film screened during the Cannes Film Festival, almost the entire front row was French citizens who could be considered legally blind. I was amazed that they stayed for the reception afterwards and said that even though they could not see what was happening on the screen, they loved the film and understood it perfectly. One even said it was "the best film he never saw." My next film will be shot with a cell phone and be on a, yes, micro-budget.