The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

May You Never Really Know What You Are Doing

Okay, we aim for mastery (yes and autonomy and purpose too) but it’s most exciting to grow.  And personally I think it is more exciting to WATCH someone who is learning than someone who is demonstrating what they know.  I describe this as loving the experiment over the proof.  I get chills when I watch someone pushing it, taking it out on the limb, not knowing if it will work, or really even where it will take them.

In this brief interview with me from a few years back (that just surfaced), I lay it out pretty well (if I do say so myself):

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

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…

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