{"id":50592,"date":"2015-02-13T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=50592"},"modified":"2015-02-13T17:49:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T17:49:20","slug":"5-legendary-directors-on-directing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/5-legendary-directors-on-directing\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Legendary Directors on Directing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"hollywood-heavyweights-dish-out-filmmaking-anecdotes-advice-for-breaking-into-the-business-and-other-tips-from-their-illustrious-careers\">Hollywood heavyweights dish out filmmaking anecdotes, advice\u00a0for breaking into the business and other tips from their illustrious careers.<\/h2>\n<p>BAFTA&#8217;s YouTube channel is a treasure trove of outstanding interviews with filmmakers of all talents. In this post I&#8217;ve rounded up <strong>the best extended interviews with feature film directors<\/strong>, all from <a title=\"BAFTA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">BAFTA<\/a> (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). Spend an hour or two with these directors and take away a ton of knowledge on breaking into, navigating and conquering the film directing world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact is that you choose to direct movies, they don&#8217;t choose you.\u00a0&#8211; Paul Greengrass<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"david-fincher-life-in-pictures\">David Fincher: Life in Pictures<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpHIzEm6058\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Fincher recently shared his &#8216;Life In Pictures&#8217; at an extensive BAFTA interview covering\u00a0his filmmaking career. The video above is a 12 minute highlight cut of the full 24 minute interview which you can <a title=\"David Fincher a Life in Pictures\" href=\"http:\/\/guru.bafta.org\/david-fincher-a-life-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">watch on the BAFTA Guru website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s great about Fincher&#8217;s (profanity laden) interview is that<strong> he shares plenty of insider anecdotes on the business end of getting movies made in the Hollywood system<\/strong> from funding <em>Fight Club<\/em>, to finding the script for <em>Se7en<\/em> &#8211; which without Brad Pitt&#8217;s help might not have stared Kevin Spacey.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"paul-greengrass-the-david-lean-lecture\">Paul Greengrass: The David Lean Lecture<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z9GQjFNFOk8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul Greengrass delivers the 2014 David Lean Lecture (an annual lecture from a respected filmmaker) giving him\u00a0<strong>the opportunity to share thoughts on career, industry and the magic of filmmaking.<\/strong> Paul Greengrass started out in documentary and made his way to such action-orientated Hollywood blockbusters as <em>Captain Phillips, Green Zone <\/em>and<em> The Bourne Ultimatum.\u00a0<\/em>Paul has some fantastic and inspiring insights to share from a hard-won career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For sure there&#8217;s one thing I think about directing, and that is you have to start, you have to continue and you have to believe, that you are an outsider, a contrarian&#8230; You&#8217;ve got to be prepared to be a bit arsey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"quentin-tarantino-a-life-in-pictures\">Quentin Tarantino: A Life In Pictures<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P9wKVjWKHdo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s childhood was steeped in watching all kinds of films (without any guidelines from his parents), nor that his first jobs were working in movie theatres and video rental stores. But <strong>his real filmmaking education came from making his own first feature film<\/strong>, self-financed from a minimum wage job over the course of several years of hard graft. What&#8217;s interesting about Quentin&#8217;s filmmaking career is that he&#8217;s written more films than he&#8217;s directed.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ron-howard-on-his-filmmaking-career\">Ron Howard on\u00a0his Filmmaking Career<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pX3fkcnNYao\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;ve been in film and television as long as Ron Howard has, there&#8217;s not much else you&#8217;d expect him to do than stay in it. Hugely successful as an actor (<a title=\"Ron Howard Career\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000165\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">80 credits on IMDB<\/a>), producer (76) and director (36) Ron Howard&#8217;s directorial credits include <em>Splash, Willow, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Frost\/Nixon <\/em>and<em> Rush<\/em>. In this interview <strong>Ron shares how he broke into the business, made the transition to directing and much more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"tim-burton-the-gothic-master\">Tim Burton: The Gothic Master<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rDi2ndMZu0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most interesting about director <strong>Tim Burton&#8217;s career is that it demonstrates that maintaining an unconventional approach can be a hugely successful one<\/strong>. In this &#8216;Life in Pictures&#8217; interview Tim discusses various topics like the diverse movie diet that he grew up with, to his break out hit <em>Batman<\/em> (1989) and his signature style as developed in <em>Beetlejuice<\/em> and <em>Edward Scissorhands<\/em>. 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