October 16, 2004
Terrifying Peek Into Film Director's Mind-Set
Such are the burdens of movie journalism that I recently found myself sitting in the Bahamas listening to a 35-year-old director explain why it's a good thing to have the mind and attention span of a 16-year-old if you're going to make Hollywood movies these days. And be grinning like one when he says it.
And clearly it is a good thing, otherwise we wouldn't be in the Bahamas listening to Brett Ratner talk about it. You don't get to bring several planeloads of international print, TV and radio journalists to a jaw-droppingly ostentatious mega-resort on Paradise Island if you're making movies that do anything less than boffo opening weekend b.o. — if you dig the lingo.
Read the entire article by Geoff Pevere
Posted by admin at October 16, 2004 10:22 AM