Vic Perillo

There's a disconnect between cast and crew. It's important to work as a team because it is a team telling a story not a hundred separate roles. You can't demand things because people need time to accomplish tasks. There has to be a connectivity between director and actors. The goal is to make it an amazing experience for everybody. When pitching a script if you have a whole team behind that script ready to shoot it the chances of it being accepted is higher. Don't allow "veterans" in the business to tell you about people and how to work with them because you don't want bias. What message do I want the audience to leave with? Stop with the shot by shot bullshit and focus on the full story. Put yourself in the mindset of the audience. We don't want to watch it to think about how technical it is they want to be encaptured by the story. Why make movies if they aren't meaningful to you? The problem with the industry is that it is a power struggle. Take actor input because sometimes they have really good insights. Keep going back to the script. We've ruined the casting system. It's electronic and too technical. We need to go back to having the person in the room with the director. The director has to cast the part because he has to use them to execute his artistic vision. Workshop your script to get more out of filming time. He has a dream to eliminate resumes and photographs because those can't act, people can.