Saturday, April 17, 2004

By the way, my man is Howard Hawks. This guy is a total badass. At the end of Hawks on Hawks, they ask what advice he gives to young directors, "I went to USC, and they gave a luncheon for me and asked me to be an honorary member of their cinema society. I got up and I said, "For God's sake, keep it funny, because the most horrible thing in the world is a beginner thinking he can get so damn dramatic that he's gonna sway people and he's gonna make a crying scene that will make them weep....Go out and work about characters. Find out about what can happen, wheat they can do. Work to get everybody that you've got in the scenario a character.

And in the end...For God's sake, see if you can't get some fun out of it."

Amen.

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