Chris Moore (2014)

I am so sad there are not more original movies getting made. Check out St. Vincent for a good original movie with Bill Murray and Mellissa McCrthy. I had nothing to do with it just loved it.

Genius. I wish i had thought of it. My two problems are that I am not sure how math gets anyone laid and girls are in charge now so it really is up to them no matter how smart one is. But A for effort.

So day to day can vary alot. Mostly it is finding the material hiring the folks to make that material into a movie and then helping market that movie to the folks who will like it. So my day is spent divided aongst these three areas of focus. reading books, seeing plays and reading scripts to find material. Meeting a watching people's work to hire crew and directors and actors. And learning how people find movies and watch movies to try and get the movies I make in front of the people that might like them. really fun.

As for the new Project Greenlight, I am really happy Matt and Ben were able to get that going again. The more people can learn about what we do the better in my opinion. I was already doing the CHAIR as I feel it is different and am truly fascinated by the 2 directors making movies from the same material so for me it was timing and how much I loved The Chair.

Really Mory? Good seeing you here. In the movie it was an amalgamation of a few folks in Matt and Ben's lives. I am glad for your boss. What are you doing now?

Mostly I hate having to be the grown-up. Delivering bad news or having to reprimand people for bad behavior sucks. It is so fun being on a set and so exciting making movies but the producer is kind of like the camp counselor making a fun experience safe and keeping everyone focused. I wish I did not have to do that as often.

I am most surprised that it became a porn category as far as my friends have told me ;-)

It was a hilarious scene to shoot as well. But it existed before we shot it, we just made it big.

Will do.

I love getting movies made so getting the financing together and being there on day one fo shooting is awesome. Also the first time yu screen your movie in front of strangers is never wracking but awesome too when they love it.

This is a great question. We are deciding for season 2 if we want it. I did it to get attention for the docu-series pure and simple. I thought having the audience participation of determining a winner would add to the engagement. It has but I agree it is almost like comparing apples to oranges the movies are so different.

This one is easy. I had a chance to work on the BOURNE IDENTITY. I love Matt in this role and am so excited it is coming back. But at the time of shooting, my first child was being born and living in EUROPE while this was happening did not seem right. But man I would have loved to make that movie.

I struggle with this everyday. I want a world where people are their own programmers. They find the storytellers they like and they follow them like bands. So you would think on-line and cord cut viewers would be great for this. But MARKETING still seems to be the driver of financial success so the need for big marketing budgets will propel the need for centralized programming and most of those will need a way into your world so you can see it. So it depends on whether people start proving they can go out and find programming themselves. If not MARKETING will stay the most important piece of filmmaking as far a on financial terms.

Stanley Kubrick vs. James Cameron on an Isaac Asimov story.

So see the Chair damn it. Just kidding i am proud of it.

As far as digital versus film as a method for storing images I am indifferent. I am not smart enough to tell the difference. But for the business of making movies it is massive because it changes lighting, process, and delivery methods being digital. Some thing better other things worse but much cleaner and simpler as far as process.

I am so grateful for Reddit having me. So thank you or tuning in. I have two favorite scenes. One because it was so hard to get done and it turned out well which was how to show the balls jokes i WAITING and the other was the "Its not your fault" scene in Good Will Hunting because we all cried on set.

Die Hard
A Clockwork Orange
Wedding Crashers

Yes indeed. We are looking for the underlying material now, Hoping for a story people are familiar with like a remake or something old school - Romeo or Juliet? I think people could get even deeper into it if they knew what story the directors were trying to tell.

Sell. Sell. Sell. It is a hard world especially now that most fo the big companies are doing just repeat projects and sequels. Never stop selling.

Getting people to believe me that seeing 2 directors making movies based on the same script would be cool. The basic premise is so fascinating to me and I was amazed at how many people outside the industry said yea I would love to see that and yet I could not get people in the business to want to do it. Thank you Starz.

Agencies are the way to go. They are set up to look for stuff to sell into the industry. As a producer I rely on them to bring stuff they have already determined could be worth my energy and time. There are just too many stories for one small producer to try and stay on top of.

This is a great question. And thanks for the positive words about my work. I look for characters in a plausible environment and a story I am interested in seeing through to the end. Will Will Hunting get out of Southie? Will JIM ever get laid? Why does working at restaurant make me happy but I want to stop? Can I escape the crazy trucker? I want people to have fun and be glad they spent their time and money on something I helped get made.

I really am better at producing. As the show demonstrates directing is hard. But the real issue is that as director you have to be the first to decide stuff and as a producer you get the luxury of getting to sit back and respond to the directors. I had a blast and would do it again but for a story I really wanted to tell a specific way.

He was a true professional and he could act. He also was funny as hell and he was a personality. Sometimes hard to differentiate but he was both. As I said before, genius.

Sadly it is a business of boxes. We all end up in boxes based on our past work. One just has to do different things to show people their range.

They wrote it. We met with a few super talented writers and directors to get feedback but they wrote it. Dumb rumors and I hate they are still out there.

Thanks for the sweet comment. It really is not that unique in the sense that many of us, producers or financiers, wonder about what that other director we could have hired would have done. But no one ever put it together like this and I just thought it was such a cool idea and that I would watch it. So it took a bunch of pitch meetings and raising some outside the business money in Pittsburgh from Steeltown and Point Park University to really get this going. Sometime you need to get outside of LA or New York to get something new done. We get in ruts and do the same thing over and over again.

Comedy

Thunder Mountain

My favorite moment was when we starting shooting that first day after 4 years of trying to get the movie made. It was an awesome feeling. I was really sad neither of them could be at the first test screening because that was awesome too.

Keep shooting stuff. Try to make it stand out and to be narrative stuff. Prove you can tell a story with a camera and then prove you can pick the best story to tell. These are the only two true levels a director is judged upon.

This guy was a genius and it breaks my heart he is no longer out there. Robin really was my first experience working with a big name and I would say today still my only experience working with a flat out genius. I loved everyday and I keep asking Miramax to put out all of the outtakes from Good Will Hunting because they are awesome and a true study in how an actor can give varied performances.

What is it? I am not familiar with it. Tell me what it is and I will answer.

I am sad to confirm it is rough to break in. It is super competitive and business all about what have you done for me lately. Your own money is key at some level and yes pushing your own stuff is really important. There are no ladders which makes it hard and there are not alot of regular jobs. So it is a struggle everyday and finances are always a problem.

Festivals are so fun to me because you get see stuff you did not know about. They also are a big party with people like me who love storytelling with cameras. Sometimes they can be desperate with all the people trying to get their films discovered but they are still a blast. I do not have too many experiences as I have been making more studio movies recently but Sundance is always fun and I enjoy SXSW in Ausitin. Great place to hang out.

Only ancient Greek ones. All other swords from all other periods of time suck!

No break dancing. Something to ask about next trip to Pittsburgh. He is just too together to have one but the look on his face when asked to find someone in Pittsburgh who was African American and would show their penis on camera was hilarious. THE CHAIR captured this well. Jonathan was our head of production for the CHAIR and is a hell of a producer.

Yes. I think there are generational leaps for kids growing up. I came up in teh 80's like John Hughes movies. I show them to my kids and they think it is history lesson. This si why I wanted Shane Dawson to direct one of the CHAIR movies. He is from a whole new generation and his movie reflects that.