We have a winner! Congrats to Steph, who correctly answered with Mahalia Jackson and Frank Lloyd Wright. I hope you enjoy the book, Steph. Thanks to the fine folks at Gotham Books, I‘m offering offered a paperback copy of The … Continued
Quoting from Francis Ford Coppola in an earlier post reminded me of something: I visited Arcosanti three times for A Life’s Work, and each time Coppola was mentioned. It seems he was doing research for a script he wrote, Megalopolis, … Continued
Someone else shoots and someone else edits. So what exactly do I do on A Life’s Work besides sit opposite these amazing people and ask them a bunch of questions? I make a lot of decisions. Who, what, where, when? … Continued
What is it that makes us look up? We look up at trees, at buildings, to the sky to see clouds, stars, planets. If we are inside and we’ve been asked a question, many of us look to where the … Continued
For someone who studied music and plays music, I have a difficult time knowing what music to use with these moving images I capture. So much so that in my first film I didn’t use music at all, but used … Continued
Dear Filmmaker, Actually, this question didn’t start that way. When I first sit down to interview someone for A Life’s Work, I have a few things I mention before I ask the first question. One of those things is, “If … Continued
“The trajectory is right,” my friend H. said to me years ago about my filmmaking career. At a recent dinner with my friend S. we discussed what we wanted for our artistic lives in 2011: “I just want the trajectory … Continued
I was watching Gimme Shelter for the billionth time the other night and I wondered what it was about that film that is so enduring. I came up with several reasons: The Maysles’ masterful cameras capture The Rolling Stones at … Continued
Last weekend I was at a dinner party and one of the guests posed a frequently asked question: Why are there four subjects in A Life’s Work? Why not three? Why not five? (To be clear, there ARE five people, … Continued