Dana Brunetti Quotes
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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Binge viewing has been around since DVD box sets.
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We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.
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Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
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You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen.
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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.