On an Unrelated Note…
I’ve just been looking at my incoming links (I like to see what people are searching for when they find my site), and two questions sprang to mind. Who’s been searching for “0000001000000110000001000000110000001000000100000010000001,” and, upon doing so, why did they decide The Anonymous Production Assistant Blog must be the site they’re looking for? By the […]
Double the Standards, Double the Fun!
I was overcome with curiosity by my fellow PA’s statement yesterday, “You don’t know who I know. I could make your life a living hell.” (Seriously, though, he’s a nice guy. This is waaay out of context.) I knew he had been hired because the coordinator was told she had to hire him. So today, […]
I Don’t Wanna Be That Guy
They say you hate in other what you hate most about yourself. I recently came off a show where I had one of the worst bosses of my entire life. Besides having the emotional maturity of a four year old (he once yelled at the script coordinator for bringing him pages, when we had just […]
Stealing Ideas
Well, I didn’t get to send anyone to the electric chair. (Or whatever it is they do nowadays. Hang ’em? Shoot ’em? Are we still stoning people?) It’s been a long, boring day, so I’ll keep this post short. I was going through some old e-mails, and I uncovered a dream I had totally forgotten […]
Civic Duty
My posting schedule will be a erratic for a little while, as I will be spending my days sitting in judgment of my fellow man. In a totally socially-endorsed way, too! If you’re in the courthouse tomorrow, I’ll be the angriest of the twelve angry men. I’m just not sure which argument I should make […]
Video Killed the Fi-i-ilm Star
I know lots of people who can’t stand HD. I worked for an AC who would say, “I don’t care what the resolution is, it’s still video.” Really, do you know anybody outside the business who can even tell the difference between HD and film, much less cares? More pertinently, I had professors proclaim there […]
Really Writing
I walked into the writers’ office yesterday and saw a ping pong ball and two paddles sitting on the assistant’s desk. I paused, staring at the ping pong ball. This was one of those moments you see in indie movies, where the character is contemplating his life, but you don’t know exactly what he’s thinking […]
Where It’s At
Yesterday, Nathan wrote, “You want to write… write!” This is the best, most important advice any aspiring writer can get. But if you’re sitting at a desk in Nome, Alaska, typing away on an Underwood by candlelight, filing your scripts in a drawer, you’re not going to have a writing career. There’s an old saying […]
There Must Be Some Way Outta Here…
Do you ever have one of those days where you look around and think, “What the fuck am I still doing here?” I’m having a day like that today. People always like to tell you, “You have to pay your dues.” But they never tell you how long you have to pay your dues for. […]
Wanna Know How Sausage is Made?
My freshman year at film school, I knew at least a half dozen people who dropped out of the program, if not college altogether. Even more changed majors in the years following. After picking films apart for class after class, they found that they just couldn’t enjoy going to the movies anymore, which was probably […]