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'Celebrating one of cinema's most unique anti-heroes on TAXI DRIVER's 40th anniversary year. A video essay by Jacob T. Swinney.
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In the spirit of creating your own mentor, the following are comments and insights by notable directors have been put together to inspire and open the mind, as it is a curse to become locked into the same routine way of thinking, leading to the...
"you have to protect the spark of connection that drove you to make the picture in the first place" - Martin Scorsese
Of course Scorsese was referring to filmmaking, but this same point, of "protecting the spark of connection", could apply to almost any art form....
De Niro offers practical advice here, which means alot coming from an actor of his stature, and especially him I suppose, because so much theoretical voodoo has grown up around his work, in order to explain away his performances - the truth is, ac...
