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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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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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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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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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

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I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.

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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

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For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

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You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew.

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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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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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Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

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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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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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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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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

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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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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.

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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

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