May 2010

The lights went up.  The audience of eager editing students didn’t seem to know whether to weep or applaud.  So they did both.

‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures

New York Governor David A. Patterson’s proposal would allow filmmakers to be eligible for a 30 percent tax credit on qualified expenditures.

“Let me just start out by saying that I have everything before Avatar, and then Avatar––because there was nothing normal about how we did this film”- Stephen Rivkin

People seem to have the impression that I sit in a big office with millions of films which I loan out to interested borrowers… My actual job involves locating stock shots …

Of all his creations, ‘The Apartment’ is Billy Wilder’s most influential and greatest film. 

Film combines all the art forms––drama, theatre, photography, dance, music, architecture––but editing is very special and specific to film.  It was borne out of film; it didn’t exist before that.  …

By the time movies arrived, all the elements of the legend were in place—except for a cohesive plot line.

Warner Bros. released Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, firing a warning shot to the older generation that they better change with the times or risk irrelevance. 

Mixing teams work best when the chemistry is good, the working style is compatible and the size of the job calls for a team approach.