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The name is John. 23, Student Filmmaker, Freelance Photographer.
I tend to daydream and zone-out a ton. This is kind of the culmination of lack of sleep and not listening in class. :D
I tend to daydream and zone-out a ton. This is kind of the culmination of lack of sleep and not listening in class. :D
| June: | Tell me about the movies you make. |
| Griffin Mill: | Why? |
| June: | Because I want to know what you do. |
| Griffin Mill: | I listen to stories and decide if they’ll make good movies or not. I get 125 phone calls a day and if I let that slip to 100 I know I’m not doing my job. Everyone who calls, they want to know one thing. They want me to say yes to them and make their movie. If I say yes, they think that come New Year’s it will be just them and Jack Nicholson on the slopes of Aspen. That’s what they think. The problem is I can only say yes, my studio can only say yes 12 times a year. And collectively we hear about 50,000 stories a year. So it’s hard. And I guess sometimes I’m not nice and make enemies. That’s what I was to David. An enemy. |
| June: | Was his story one of the 12? |
| Griffin Mill: | No, it wasn’t. |
| June: | Why? |
| Griffin Mill: | It lacked certain elements that we need to market a film successfully. |
| June: | What elements? |
| Griffin Mill: | Suspense, laughter, violence. Hope, heart, nudity, sex. Happy endings. Mainly happy endings. |
| June: | What about reality? |
