Genius Types

When I got my first movie job, It was like my own private film school. Our million dollar film starring Gary Busey set up shop in a residential rental house. We painted the walls and packed it full of desks to create our own low-budget indie production office. But the thing that fascinated me the most was the division of labor.

Hollywood is said to be a closed enterprise; an elite fraternity with lavish rewards only accessible through nepotism, wealth, or sheer luck.

Why do I stare at the screen but type no words? Why do I find pages to click and stations to hear to distract myself from the project at hand?

Most people are scared of competition. They see the world’s population exploding at over 6 1/2 billion people and think that they will never have a chance. Every year, the competition’s getting stiffer. More and more investors are battling over real estate, more and more bloggers are battling over cyberspace, and more and more film-makers [...]

One of the countless gifts the internet has given us is the ability to teach ourselves. I picked up a guitar for the first time about ten years ago, and was able to teach myself through resources on the web. If you’re interested in learning to play guitar, the internet is waiting to take you [...]

I just returned from the South by Soutwest Music, Film, and Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas where I spent the week as a producer for a movie that followed the festival. Allthough I have worked in many facets of film production before, this was the first time that I actually got a producer credit. I’ve [...]

Creativity is an amazing process. People who have learned to tap into their creative powers are able to create beautiful works of art, solve impossible problems, and make something out of nothing.

I hated writing when I was in junior high and high school. As a creative person, I cringed at the thought of adhering to very specific rules in spelling, grammar, and sentence structure. To make things worse, the rules seemed to change without warning and for no particular reason. How was I supposed to keep [...]

The film industry is a profession that most people automatically write off as impossible to get into. “Good luck with that,” people will say with a smirk when you tell them of your intentions.