3 posts tagged “quotes”

a quote

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

-- John Wooden

Tomorrow I am shooting that MMA  (mixed Martial Arts) film. The director is a strange guy. it will be interesting no doubt. expect pictures from it.

another interesting note is that I'm meeting with a one-year NYFA student Sunday to be the DP on her thesis film.

Well this weekend I booked a gig. It is basically volunteer status unless the film gets big and makes some money then I get something o the back-end. I don't have too many details, I'm meeting the director tonight. I won't be the 1st director of photography because I'm being brought on late in the project, but I am running camera.  We are shooting a big tournament scene for a grappling submission film and some of the the training montage.
  I'm still hoping my teachers at NYFA can hook it up with a TA job, but it has been about a week they have had my application so seems doubtful but I both my directing teacher and cinematography teacher said they would mention something about it.
  I finished a promo for GHOST BEAR and almost finished the 505/PICTURE THIS promo, just waiting on the final version of the song. I want to redo my demo reel with a new song add some more footage and cut some others and hopefully shorten it down by about a minute or so. I also still have that footage from washington heights that I shot and didn't edit yet. Then want to pick another area and do the same things, just a montage and maybe try to capture the life of the neigborhood then hopefully get overall feeling of Manhattan. This is a far off project that i don't really care if I ever complete but it is easy to do when I need to get ouf of the apartment and be productive for a day.
   I mentioned I was working on a few scripts, yeah haven't worked on them much the last few days (slap me on the hand)
   I need to start excersing too It just makes for a better day when you got for a run or something. Problem is that I used to have a hot tub to motovate me after a run at the gym, now I won't have that motovation.

  It has been a high roommate drama which I just find a little funny. Nothing really specific just little bickering about trash, dishes, loud music, lost keys and weed. I guess eight people in an appartment will make you see everyone's tiny flaws and quirks.

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being
wrong."
-- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for."
-- Allan K. Chalmers

For whatever reason I always seem to find some comfort in good quotes. I guess they make me feel educated, If you can quote Aristotle your the smartest guy in the room.

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under
trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a
waste of time."
-- J. Lubbock

"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses."
--Edith Sodergran

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
-Aristotle

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing
from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary
letters along the way."
-- Douglas Pagels