Vault #413

Film director and screenwriter, as well as an avid runner and cook/foodie. A fun outlet and central hub for my love of film, all the aspects of it that drive and motivate me, as well as other enjoyable things I find while browsing online. 

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Aliens (1986) Directed by James Cameron

Production Design by Peter Lamont

Director of Photography: Adrian Biddle

The original director of photography was fired during the initial filming of this scene due to his insistence on over lighting a set that was supposed to be mysterious and foreboding. James Cameron found that such a lighting scheme ruined the tension of the scene and Adrian Biddle was brought in as a replacement. Biddle worked closely with Cameron’s directions and relied mostly on the lights from the marine’s costumes with little additional lighting when necessary.

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One step at a time, one punch at a time, one round at a time.

Rocky Balboa, Creed (2015)

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You live long enough, you start to see the same eyes in different people.

Maz Kanata, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

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Every Quentin Tarantino Movie Ranked By Tomatometer

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“I’m sorry, did I break your concentration???”

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I always say, the biggest challenge on any film is to create a kind of continuity within it... Each scene has to work with the next, it all has to feel like the same world. You're telling the same story in each image.

Roger Deakins

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I think it’s because the list is very short, because we don’t see women in these kind of roles. So I think as soon as you do a role like that, like Charlize did or I did, or Rebecca’s done -- there’s like four of us or something. And Jen Lawrence. So I feel like us four, we get talked about -- and Angie, Angelina. So it’s a list of like, four women who are going to be considered for those kind of roles. So I think that’s why the rumors happen, because they’re like, 'who else? Surely not another girl can wield a gun,' you know what I mean? 'A woman doing push-ups? There’s only one who can do that.'

Emily Blunt

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Obsessed with Rita tonight.

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Tom Hardy photographed by Greg Williams for Esquire, May 2015

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His beard is so much more awesome than mine.

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Audrey Hepburn

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Chinatown (USA, 1974)

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Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice posters by Amien Juugo

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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

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You know, sometimes I worry you're just a really great dream.

Noah, The Affair (Season 1, Episode 6)

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Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty.

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Because we are uncool. While women will always be a problem for guys like us, most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. Good-looking people, they got no spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter... Cause great art is about, you know, guilt and longing, and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Lester Bangs, Almost Famous

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Moments

In my notepad I have this small little note scribbled down that I keep referring back to: “Moments in time. Things that we see. What is captured within the frame and the distinctive/specific/authentic type of experience that it depicts.” For the past few weeks I’ve constantly been obsessing and going over this fascination I have with unplanned and fleeting moments in time and what they mean to me as a filmmaker. One night, you’re walking down the street by the Ben Franklin Bridge, and the subway trail passes overhead just as a street light changes and and the moon comes out from behind the clouds. You see all of these things happen at once, and they immediately have an effect on you and how you might view the world. Now, they may have less of an effect on you than someone else. Maybe they don’t affect you at all, but I know that I am personally fascinated by these moments because there is no way to predict them or foresee when they may happen. It is these moments that I find myself constantly desiring to create and emulate in film. In film, you are constantly placed into a perspective other than your own, and if it’s done well you are able to understand that new perspective and why you’re being shown things that you see on screen. I guess that this recent obsession might just be my own desire to comprehend and grasp the authentic and personal view of the world that I want to place my audience members into during my films.  

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Been looking for this blog post for a while. Probably my most significant creative realization as a filmmaker within the past 4 years.