Get going

26Oct06

“ There’s a principle I’ve learnt which is probably the most important thing any young person could learn about becoming a film director and that is to treat the project you want to do as though you’re already doing it. That really, in principle was how “Dementia 13” was made. I went and told everyone I was making this big film and acted as though I was. I really had no deal. And the same with “You’re A Big Boy Now”. By laying out those few hundreds of dollars necessary to make the trips,and to rent a small office and generally saying “hey, we’re making a film, it got to be a going thing. And its easier to get a going thing than a non going thing going, obviously.”

Francis Ford Coppola

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