Filmmaker Sean Baker on not giving up – The Creative Independent

“You need time. And that doesn’t mean necessarily even working full-time on it itself; it means time to throw some ideas together and let them sit, go off and do something else, come back and see what still feels right.”

–Christopher Nolan

When we were young. And we made this franchise for people like us. And this is what there was. But, I guess, who did we become? Now that I have some money. Now that I have some skills. What is the thing I want to say to the world? What would I make for the people so that they might understand me? Understand who I am? Catharsis, drama, something new

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It isn’t easy to explain why I shoot films so far from home, but I do know that a healthy imagination needs space; the great works of cinema weren’t made while standing at the kitchen sink. For me, every film is a ticket into the world and the business of living. What I’m looking for is an unspoilt, humane spot for man to exist, an area worthy of h

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