HUFFINGTON
06.17.12
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to keep you up at night, if
you’re trying to make the
film. It’s so personally relevant to so many people, not
the least of which are the
surviving members of the
Wu-Tang Clan and everybody who knew them.”
“It’s kind of like, we’d better not fuck this up.”
You plan to work tirelessly
to avoid fucking things up,
and you plan to work smart,
squeezing as much as possible from your limited resources. You’ll find ways to
reassure would-be investors
that they won’t have to sell
their first-edition Pulp Fic-
tion posters if things go awry,
if the road map tears.
You also need to remember that you have a style
and an ethos that puts actors and filmmakers at ease.
With your hipster beards
and Williamsburg digs,
you’re not so different from
the musicians, writers and
artists who have colonized
this New York City borough
where you work and live.
“From the beginning,” says
Van Hoy, “we’ve had this
idea, that if we trusted each
other we would have leverage
in an industry where nobody
trusts anybody.”
Ewan McGregor
and Christopher
Plummer in Mike
Mills’ Beginners