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First-Time Filmmaker F*ck-ups
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First-Time Filmmaker F*ck-ups

by Daryl Goldberg
November 2012
Beginner
209 pages
5h 38m
English
Routledge
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Fuck-Up #42

“The Director Should Worry about Everything”

Why the director should be kept in the dark about most problems

 

“Hire people who are better than you are; then leave them to get onwith it.”1

—David Ogilvy

 

 

The Fuck-Up…

First-time directors often think they need to worry about EVERYTHING: where’s lunch, is the wardrobe going to be ready on time, is the truck fixed yet, is my crew happy, am I going over budget, did the dailies make it to the lab, and so on. They see the entire movie as their baby and that they (like many first-time parents) must control everything that influences their child. However, even new parents eventually learn that while it might be their baby, it is going to take a village to raise it.

Thousands of problems ...

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