Independent Ed
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978-1-59240-933-4 (ISBN)
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INTRODUCTION My first film was released in 1995. It was The Brothers McMullen , a comedy about family, relationships, sibling rivalry, and growing up after you're already grown up. Shot for $25,000 in and around my parents' Long Island home, it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, scored at the box office, and got me labeled as one of Hollywood's hottest young independent filmmakers. A few years later, I couldn't get a movie made. You should know that I did not set out to become an indie filmmaker or to make an independent film. I've never given any consideration to those labels and definitions. Besides, what is an indie film? Some people argue that it has to do with subject matter. Some people think it has to do with the size of your budget. Others believe it has to do with how you got your financing or who distributed your film. I've always defined it as a film that is independent of outside influence. And that's all I wanted. The goal has been to make films-my own films-on my terms, the way I have envisioned them, without any interference. And that last part is tough to pull off. It has required belief, courage, and an unflinching streak of independence. The result has been a labor filled with far more love than frustration, and far more a sense of accomplishment than defeat. And that's the story I have told in this book. As of January 2015, it will have been twenty years since I took McMullen to Sundance. Since then, I have written and directed another ten films. Many of them have had seven-figure budgets (my biggest budget was No Looking Back 's $5.5 million); my last three have cost so little they have been labeled microbudgets. To dwell on the budgets, though, would be to focus on the wrong thing. Independent Ed is about my education as a filmmaker, a producer, and a writer. It's the kind of book I would have wanted to read back when I was in film school or before then, back when I first got the idea of writing scripts and putting those stories on film. In those days, I didn't even know if making a movie was possible. More important, I didn't know it was impossible. I was dumb enough and young enough to believe in my dreams. I like to think I still am. Dumb enough, that is. Which is the message I hope to convey here. In this book, you will read about how I have made movies, why I have made them, and what happened along the way. You will see that the business side of making films is as crucial as the creative process. But nothing can replace the commitment you have to make to your work. If you want to make a film, you simply have to find a way to make it. An important thing to remember: There are no rules when chasing your filmmaking dreams. That's the big takeaway. There is no right way or wrong way to make a movie. You've just got to figure out a way to get it done. And it won't be easy. But that's not why we do it, is it? We do it because we have no choice. It's who we are. And most likely, you'll find that those days on set will be the best days of your life. Eddie Burns Tribeca, New York City 2014 ONE The middle of three children, I was raised in a neighborhood of Irish, Italian, and Jewish families in Valley Stream, Long Island. My dad, Edward J. Burns, was a sergeant with the NYPD. Later, he became the department's media spokesman. My mom, Molly, worked for the FAA and has to get the credit for turning me on to Woody Allen. Soon after we got our first VCR, sometime in the early eighties, she brought home a VHS copy of Take the Money and Run, which, needless to say, I loved. That was soon followed by Bananas and Sleeper . A few years later, it was Annie Hall and Manhattan . But at this point, I had never given any thought to how movies got made or who wrote them, and I certainly had no dreams of becoming a writer myself. Not yet. But my father did. When I was
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 208 mm |
| Gewicht | 276 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Schlagworte | Burns, Edward |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59240-933-4 / 1592409334 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59240-933-4 / 9781592409334 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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