Chapter | Fifteen
Manage Your Production: Be a Producer
OVERVIEW
Prevent fights on set, make friends with the people you work with, gain respect for being cool under pressure – that’s producing.
Experts’ Tips
Walter Murch, filmmaker, editor, Apocalypse Now!, The Godfather, Cold Mountain.
“You need a tremendous amount of teamwork which everyone is fulfilled by and where everyone feels appreciated. No one sits there idly. Everyone has input. Everyone has a viewpoint and you can see that viewpoint.”
QUALITIES YOU NEED AS PRODUCER
Business sense. You need to be able to juggle various ideas and issues at the same time. Can you think of a project in a long-term way, and how all the various elements of it come together? You need to ...
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