May 2010
1 post
take your kid to work day
Max: When are you going to take me to work like mommy took me to her office for take-your-kid-to-work day?
Greg: We go to my work all the time. Whenever we go to a coffee shop. That's where I get my work done.
Max: Yeah, every time we get a bagel, we're going to Daddy's office.
January 2010
4 posts
the strong boy
I’m trying to sneak a movie in — in between my other movies. I’m trying to sneak in making one, not watching one. The Florida movie is in post; the Alaska movie is in pre-production. In order to burn off some creative energy I’ve been filming Max, my five-year-old. Max: building a tent, burying himself in a pile of leaves, or recovering in the hospital from surgery. The clips form a...
movie meeting
Emily worked late last night, which left me scrambling to get both kids to bed before an 8:30 “Jonestown Defense” meeting at my apartment, with our two editors, actor/producer, and sound designer. An important meeting to be sure, as we are facing a March 24 deadline to submit the film the Critics Week at Cannes. I needed to have the kids asleep and out of the way.
Just as the meeting...
barren playground
It’s a popular question in my circles. Does being a parent make it harder to be a filmmaker? Or harder, for that matter, to work in any type of profession where you’re a mixture of artist and entrepreneur? Do the constraints on your time (transporting kids back and forth from school) and energy (“Daddy, let’s play! Let’s play!”) sap those vital resources away from being able to be creative? ...
what's in a name?
I once read that Stanley Kubrick kept an editing suite at home so that, among other reasons, he could spend time with his kids while he worked. Apparently, despite the unruly demands of filmmaking, he was also quite a family man. When I used to have an office job at Imagine Entertainment in Los Angeles, I remember thinking how difficult it was to spend vastly more hours of each day with my...