The Art and Anxiety of Filmmaking

     Film4(whom I don't know enough about to go into an overview about) gathered up many amazing directors, such as Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Ben Wheatley, Steve McQueen, Joe Carnahan and Lone Scherfig to talk about their starts, the art of film-making and their fears.
     Some of the things they touch on are the importance of opening-up to change when directing, how action and acting can blend to allow for a humanized element, and how important responsibility is. Some of them also talked about basic fears like making a movie adaptation of preexisting material , in which you're always thinking that you don't want to "mess it up" for those who love the book or whatever other media the source material comes from. Or how (and this is a commonly shared one) you never know if what you're making is going to work, you could produce it without a hitch, exactly the way you see it in your head, no compromise, but it can still crash-and-burn in the market if the audience doesn't like it. But even knowing that people still go on and create movies because they want to. Some see it as art, and some use movie-making to explore what it means to be human. For some of them, their passion and eventual career started with things as simple as drawing comic strips or playing with a parents' camera All-in-all, with all the fears these people have, it really is wonderful they still decide to do this for a living, because we wouldn't have good or bad movies if there weren't anyone making them at all.