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One Has To Be Delusional To Be A Movie Director by Daniel Stamm

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Film Courage:  I have another quote for you.  I know there are just so many quotes in today’s interview.  This one is from Maxwell Maltz and it reads ‘Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take calculated risk and to act.’  So do you relate to this? 

Daniel Stamm:  I think it helps if the idea is good to begin with, you know? We were talking about this earlier, I think confidence does help a lot, but if the idea is bad, then being persistent and loud about it is not going to get you that far either.  I like people a lot that are quieter and have great ideas and I know I have to pay good attention because they won’t point out how great their ideas are, so I have to kind of listen because I know the diamonds are in there.  They won’t scream them into my face.  But it is probably true that a lot of great ideas…(Watch the video on Youtube here).

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The Cyclotron is a thriller that takes place at the end of the Second World War. Simone, a spy working for the Allies, is entrusted with the mission to find and execute Emil, a scrupulous Berlin scientist who discovered before the Americans the way to build an atomic bomb, and is fleeing with his secret. Simone finds him on a night train speeding towards Switzerland. German soldiers, led by König, a German scientist, who want to arrest Emil and make him talk before he leaves the country, are also chasing him. Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the pursuit.

 

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Show Business is an American comedy that follows screenwriter Guy Franklin as he moves from NYC to LA with his fiancé. It should be a great gig but Guy soon realizes that being in Show Business and balancing his life love is easier said than done – a movie by Composer/Filmmaker Alexander Tovar

 

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