Plenty of people have bright ideas. Plenty of people are geniuses, but will never know it, because they don’t execute.

Fat Joefrom the documentary Paper Chasers

Shut up and shoot.

—Anthony Q. Artis

 

Know this: Filmmaking is not magic or rocket science. All the crafts and practices of filmmaking can be learned. Pretty much anyone can be a filmmaker (or even a rocket scientist for that matter). All you’ve gotta do is study and learn what the task involves, then methodically do ...

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