Charlie Kaufman gave this speech on my birthday last year at the BAFTA lectures, but it is a gift to us all.
Charlie will inspire you. He inspires me. I wish we could clone him but am also glad he is one of a kind.
Thanks to Neil Fox (@drgonzolives) for tipping me to this.
Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…
