Google
Archive
Data
Tuesday
Jul072009

Comteks on Set

"the film studio of today is really the Palace of the 16th century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw; the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers. There are fantastically beautiful women, there are incompetent favorites. There are great men who are suddenly disgraced. There is the most insane extravagance, and unexpected parsimony over a few pence. There is enormous splendor, which is a sham; and also horrible squalor hidden behind the scenery. There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no one speaks of. There are even two or three honest advisers. These are the court fools, who speak the deepest wisdom in puns, lest they should be taken seriously. They grimace, and tear their hair privately, and weep” And they all need Comteks.

(from Prater Violet with apologies to Christopher Isherwood) - If you don't know what a Comtek is you won't fully appreciate this one.

Tuesday
Jul072009

Jealous Mics

"This is the microphone that makes all the other mics jealous"

Lee Popa, Music Producer talking about the lead vocal mic on stage.

Tuesday
Jul072009

Don't Worry...

"Don't worry about it, we've f**ked up bigger shows then your's."

Tuesday
Jul072009

It all adds up...

"As few mistakes as we make... It all adds up"

Barry McArdle

Tuesday
Jul072009

Television is furniture...

"Theater is life, film is art, and television is furniture"

Brad Cochran

Tuesday
Jul072009

It's just television...

"It's just television, it should be bad sometimes. When it goes wrong it should go really wrong, not just a low level wrong. When it goes wrong it should be horribly wrong and cause you to sit up in bed and say, 'Honey wake up, Cher just called Letterman an asshole'"

Dennis Miller on "Later with Greg Kinnear"

Tuesday
Jul072009

Weekends in television production...

"Weekends are the days when the traffic is light on you're way to the studio."

David Lyons, freelance camera operator

Tuesday
Jul072009

Television must teach...

"You got to use television to teach otherwise its just lights and wires in a box."

Edward R. Murrow

Tuesday
Jul072009

"I've never seen life, I've just recreated it."

Chris Fenwick one day when we were recreating a scene with stock brokers trying to buy stocks in the "pit"

Tuesday
Jul072009

"The wonderful thing about this industry is you can get there from here...you just have to pick the path."

Marty Pell, Assistant Editor SFPG