Veteran filmmaker Ridley Scott has dealt out some tough advice to aspiring filmmakers.
Scott, one of cinema’s most iconic directors working today, having his hand in numerous classics from across the ages, is still hard at work in the industry. Speaking at a special BAFTA: A Life in Pictures event that was celebrating his acclaimed career, the director dealt out some advice to those trying to crack the business.
Scott told young filmmakers that they had “no excuses”, that with the advances in technology and the fact that digital cameras and editing programs are so readily available, that the barriers to making a movie have gone by the wayside, and therefore if an aspiring filmmaker really did want to emulate his career that they should: “go out and make a movie this weekend or stop moaning.”
Scott also warned that they should be prepared to work incredibly hard or try their hand at something else: “There are a lot of them now,” said Scott. “I think they think it’s going to be all fun and parties. When I do a movie, I’m shooting by 8:45 a.m. You have to or you’ll never catch up.”
Scott had plenty of advice for filmmakers during the event, mentioning everything from budgets to telling them not to sit in on editing rooms or mixing sessions, saying: “If you sit in the editing room with the editor every night you’ll drive each other crazy. I shoot. I see rushes. I leave it.”
To read more about what Ridley had to say, take a look at the full breakdown over at Variety.
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