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Film Courage: What makes a great film?
Peter M. Hoffman, Author/Film Financier/Former Carolco Pictures CEO: Albert Grossman once said, There’s some successes you can’t be part of.
What he means by that is each one of us has a way of doing a certain kind of success.
We can’t do every single success.
The movie business is that way.
That doesn’t mean that every single movie that’s a great movie is something that I could have made or that anybody else could have made.
It’s just what that was.
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There’s a personal element to it.
So you start, I think, with knowing what it is you can do, what appeals to you, what comes to your hand.
You have to do that to make a good movie because if you try to make what somebody else is making or what somebody else thinks is a great movie, you’re going to fail.
That’s somebody else’s success.
So the first order of business is to understand that you can’t know everything and you’re not going to do everything, but you can figure out some things that work.
To me the things that worked are what I call a…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
A lawyer turned producer and studio executive, Hoffman built a career that bridged the creative and the corporate, the visionary and the pragmatic. As the founder and CEO of Carolco and Seven Arts Entertainment, he brought to life acclaimed and enduring films including The Believer, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, alongside Stander, Asylum, Johnny Mnemonic, Rules of Engagement, and Rate Race. Earlier, as President and CEO of Carolco Pictures, he helped guide an era of independent filmmaking that produced cultural touchstones such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Basic Instinct, and Total Recall.
In the decades since, Hoffman has continued to mentor and advise filmmakers and financiers through Picture Pro LLC and Luminosity Pictures, ventures that reflect his enduring belief that cinema is both an art form and an enterprise—a delicate balance that must be protected and reimagined with every generation.
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