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The Fassbinder Method
“So: completion come what may.”
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Mason Currey
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David Milch’s disembodied writing process
“I lie there on the floor and I talk and the words come up on the screen.”
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Mason Currey
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Get rid of what your project needs
A peek into Céline Sciamma’s desire-driven process
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Mason Currey
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Mike Leigh’s gloriously inefficient filmmaking process
“I can’t tell you about the character because there is no character.”
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Mason Currey
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Chantal Akerman’s methodology
“If you start with no ideas, something happens.”
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Mason Currey
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A master class in creative doubt
And what to do with it, featuring the Iranian director Jafar Panahi
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Mason Currey
20
Phil Stutz on his string-of-pearls theory of work (and life)
Some motivational advice from Jonah Hill’s therapist
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Mason Currey
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David Lynch on being true to your ideas
Plus his devotion to daily routines, meditation, Bob’s Big Boy, and sugar!!!
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Mason Currey
14
Joanna Hogg’s art of perseverance
“You do all the things that are not right, but they all contribute to the thing that will be right in the end.”
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Mason Currey
13
Subtle inspiration: a grab bag
Kubrick’s willpower, Nicole Eisenman’s mantra, Baldessari’s “Johnisms,” and other nuggets from my move-scattered brain
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Mason Currey
Hayao Miyazaki, creativity, and selfishness
Watching a four-part documentary on Japan’s irritable genius of animation
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Mason Currey
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Filmmaker Erin Lee Carr’s quarantine routine
“I’m on 8–12 phone calls a day, always whittling down a to-do list, and definitely still prioritizing coffee.”
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Mason Currey
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