25th April 2017 | for Creatives | reaching your audience, filmmaking, never stop LEARNING, James Gunn |
"Some of my favorite directors of the 1970s became rich and famous and lost touch with other human beings not like themselves. [With social media,] I can now maintain a connection to other people, not just in the U.S. but all over the world. It allows me insight into someone who's 15 in Thailand."
"I know the next decade will bring some wild changes—both personally and industry-wide—as the vehicles with which we consume content keep changing. That directly informs what I do for a living, and my hope is not just to keep up, but to really engage with new channels, mediums, and people."
"[My films] mean different things to different people. Some mean more or less the same things to a large number of people. It's okay. Just as long as there's not one message, spoon-fed. That's what films by committee end up being, and it's a real bummer to me ... Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too."
"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."
"I started out writing novels—I wrote two bad ones before I ever touched a short story. ... Those failed novels taught me an immense amount about focus and about paying attention to my audience—essential skills for writing the short story. Had I not written those bad novels I doubt I would have ever had any luck with short stories."
"I was used to uniting an audience with humour; this time, I wanted to unite an audience with humanity."
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