Hell Ride

The following was written in ignorance of having produced and directed a film, and the arrogance of having produced and directed a film.

1. Every day is the Cuban Missile Crisis: Your world might explode.

Shooting an independent film is an adventure most volatile radioactive than a dictator drunk scratching his back with the joystick nuclear. At any moment the whole project could be truly blown. Why? Because making a film is an interdependent relationship in which everyone and everything depends on something else. If a player suffers a nervous breakdown, the truck suddenly pulls out a grip, the cops stumble on your flamethrower scene of guerrilla warfare in downtown Los Angeles, catering sandwiches mayonnaise left in the sun all afternoon or your lender drops a week of shooting because his wife catches him in the sauna clubhouse with Reggie the golf pro - if none of these realistic scenarios happen - you'll be forced to restore peace in a apocalyptic desert. And, like all Sunday school students know, the Apocalypse is always bad.

2. Surround yourself with gray hair and listen.

Making movies is the art team. Why not be the most experienced team possible? And those who have gray hair tend to have more experience than others. Of course, the hair color of people. And of course, not everyone is going gray. And of course, some recruits have gray hair. But chances are if they have gray hair and working in the movie business before the craze for Men Only, they have much wisdom to pass. You'll do yourself and your audience a great service if you are open to advice to gray hair than you fight against the biggest headache of your life. If you choose not to listen to the wise, then by all means, to reinvent the wheel and see if it rolls.

3. Never wait for a phone call.

Telephones never ring when you stare. We do not know why, but we believe it violates the law, second or third statement. To make your movie you'll have to make thousands of phone calls. And if you leave a message and wait for that person to remind you - it is better to wait until the cow jumping over the moon. At first, nobody will care about your dreams but you. Nobody. Sure, you want to give people a reasonable amount time to remember, for example, a half hour or so. Make your friend's phone and dial your future.

4. Stay relentless. Trust anyone.

Have you ever seen a mush sled dogs? They run and run without knowing where they go, or why their language is suspended from the mouth - just a destination somewhere on the other side of the storm. If you're not hard, you never let the blizzard and your movie will not happen. So, the sled dogs - and MUSH ON!

5. There are only solutions.

This could easily be titled "there just problems." But where this would lead you succeed? Frustrated, hopeless, and drunk. We must find a way. No matter what. We have postponed our lives, our wives and our husbands and children, our friends and family, ruined our credit and exhausted our savings in the pursuit of our dreams. So we must find the solution to all problems, and they are constant. If you concentrate on the problem instead of an exit door, then you will fail to make your movie. There is always a solution.

6. Spend money financier as if it were your own: Do not be a bastard.

Karma comes to mind about this. But let's say you do not believe in what spiritual quackery. Fine. You still want to keep your budget and spend it on important things - what is on screen, rather than sushi dinner and a stop over twenty inch rims. You're hungry for so the temptation to spend a little more about you and your friends will be there. But do not rationalize wasting money a rich person. This money is for you to do th.