Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: It has everything Hollywood movies wish they had.
Film Courage: Today we have another quote. We’ve done this with you in the past. We’re wondering if you can read this quote? I’m not sure you know who it is?
Chris: Let’s see if I can figure it out. Okay…I feel like I’m on a game show. [Chris reads quote]
“I am a filmmaker. My job is to make films. When something excites you, a story or characterization you immediately forget about everything else. You only think how to make a movie out of it, the economics come only later. You shouldn’t let money dictate the kind of films you should make.”
I really love that statement. I’m not exactly sure who wrote it but I love that. I think there’s a couple of things. It’s unfortunate that filmmaking is the most expensive art form. Even if you make a film on your iPhone, at some point you’re going to have to do a professional sound mix, you’re going to have to use color correction, you’re going to have to spend some money to market the film. Even movies at a low budget level money is sort of the unspoken producer of every movie. That’s why when you see the movies with the highest budgets many times they appeal to everyone and no one and don’t exactly leave you with any sort of lasting impression. I think money is always the unspoken producer and in addition money is for many beginning filmmakers an excuse to not make a movie so I feel like you need to kind of set all those excuses aside, find out what your baseline level budget is to tell a story and if there’s a way to do it leap right in. But now you have to tell me who said this. I don’t know.
Film Courage: Speaking of leaping right in, I’m thinking of the dancing scene, that would be…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Chris Gore is a writer, comedian, author and television personality who has built a solid reputation as a hilariously outspoken voice in the entertainment world. As a teenager, Chris founded the brutally honest magazine Film Threat, which began as a fanzine while he was a college student in Detroit. As Film Threat evolved into a respected national magazine, he relocated to Los Angeles. The print magazine was retired in 1997 when it was re-launched as a web site. FilmThreat.com found a huge audience online and was named one of the top five movie web sites by the Wall Street Journal. Chris has appeared as a film expert on MSNBC, E!, CNN, Travel Channel, and Reelz Channel. Chis has also hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and G4TV’s Attack of the Show as the show’s film expert. His weekly movie review segment DVDuesday was among the most popular on G4. Chris is also an author, having written The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made and The Complete DVD Book. His book The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide is considered the bible of the industry and is required reading at film school.
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