Eran Creevy quotes

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
-- Eran Creevy

#Musical #Film #Filmmaking

I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that time and what's going on in the newspapers, so you reflect on that and you feed it into your stories in some way.
-- Eran Creevy

#Writing #Thinking #Helping

I think writing is one of the toughest things.
-- Eran Creevy

#Writing #Thinking

Directing is for pussies.
-- Eran Creevy

#Pussy

I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.
-- Eran Creevy

#Writing #Years #Two

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.
-- Eran Creevy

#Rocks #Sculpture #Lumps

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.