Category Archives: Filmmakers

How Steven Spielberg broke into Hollywood

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: January 9, 2010
Steven Spielberg started making movies as a young child, using Super 8 equipment. He was extremely ambitious from the outset and made his first feature film at the age of seventeen. The film, Firelight, premiered on the 8th March 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona. The film was, of course, low-budget; Spielberg shot it with a good [...]
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How James Cameron broke into Hollywood

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: January 8, 2010
“Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Shoot it on video if you have to. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.” (James Cameron) After moving to [...]
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James Cameron and Steven Spielberg direct the best battle scenes

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: January 7, 2010
James Cameron is a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci — a genius in the truest sense of the term. James Cameron and Stephen Spielberg are the only directors on this planet who are able to direct a battle scene that actually makes sense, as opposed to being dull and pointless. Every other director — including one who has [...]
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Terrence Malick Interview | Rome Film Festival

By LAvideoFilmmaker | Published: July 5, 2009
I wrote this post after attending the interview at the Rome Film Festival on October 24th, 2007. ———————————— “Terrence Malick is extremely shy and you must not attempt to make direct contact with him. You must pretend you are eavesdropping on a private conversation.” I am sitting in the middle of the front row in the “Petrassi” [...]
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