“We want our lives to be boring. We want the art to be exciting. And you get that by finding the beginning and the middle of the end is just sight and sound. How about make every single sight and every single sound palpably, measurably move the story...
“Carmine Appice has played with Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, so many bands. So studying with Carmine, it just changed my drumming life. But he taught me some valuable lessons that were so important to me. One was, if you’re playing because you want to get...
“I love backlight because it’s pushing the actors toward us. It’s really that sense of the halo of backlight, which for me, metaphorically, I think actors are angels. I mean, sometimes, you know, you can hate them, right? But I do think that...
“People think that this industry is very large, and it is, but it’s also very small, and a lot of people know a lot of people. So the best thing you can do is meet and talk to as many people as you can. I hire production assistants who don’t...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
