With No Power Comes No Responsibility
I’ve worked on some horrible shows. (One of the quaint anachronisms from the days when everyone in Hollywood was a former vaudvillian is the fact that everything, be it a movie, a TV series, or even a music video, is called a “show.”) I worked on a horror movie about giant eels. I worked on […]
Why Would Anyone Want To Be A PA?
The hours are lousy, the pay is worse. No one respects you. If anything goes wrong, it’s always your fault. And everyone tells you you’re lucky just to be here. There is one advantage– free time. We’re often busy, it’s true, but a lot of a PA’s job is simply to be ready. While we […]
I Hate New York. (There, I Said It.)
First, a quick update on the tree-killing. Yesterday, we ran 115 copies of the script. By the end of the day, we used 9,869 pages. Or, 1.18 trees. If it was a cherry tree, I’d feel like George Washington. Moving on. I was perusing the LA Metblog, and came across this article, which in turn […]
What The Heck Is A Production Assistant, Anyway?
A PA is all things to all people. By which I mean, any shit job that nobody else wants to do is given to the PAs. Making coffee, making copies, driving all the way across town to drop off a script and thus adding unnecessary greenhouse gases to our environmental crimes. (Seriously, e-mail exists. What’s […]
Killing Trees
Hollywood is considered a progressive place, concerned with environmentalism, global warming, and “green” things like that. Judging by the number of hybrids in the parking lot, that’s generally true. Except when it comes to paper. I’m not much of an environmentalist myself, but even I’m shocked at how much paper we waste. We’ll use half […]
What’s in it for You?
The purpose of this blog is not to give advice. After four years of film school, and four more of real industry experience, the only thing I know for sure is that I don’t know much. (Which is not to say that youth necessarily equals bad advice; check out Amanda’s blog for a fine example.) […]
What’s My Motivation? (Or, Does the World Really Need Another Blogger?)
Yesterday, I read an essay by Paul Graham, “Good and Bad Procrastination.” Among other things, Graham summarizes Richard Hamming’s “You and Your Research” thusly: What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not? I like the third question, because it assumes an answer to the second. […]