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#4 – David Kanter (film producer & manager) at Paramount Studios

October 12, 2016 by tombenedek@gmail.com

David Kanter (producer: The End of the Tour, The Revenant & manager: Anonymous Content) talks developing scripts and producing films while separately managing writers and filmmakers.

We talk about:

  • Working at Anonymous Content
  • Growing up in Michigan
  • Making of ‘The End of the Tour’
  • Getting ‘The Revenant’ produced
  • A pilot, ten years in the making
  • The current state of the film and television industries
  • A kind of work ethic the yields success
  • Balancing life as a manager and a producer

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Quotes from the show:

“The movie happened because it reflected for everyone who made it something that was essential to each of us.”

“All the things I aspired to do growing up with movies, I kind of transferred it over now to the world of television that I watch.”

“One of the nice things about being a manager as opposed to being an agent, it’s an unspoken but very powerfully interpreted rule that you don’t go and steal other people’s business. You just don’t do it.”

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Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Aaron Paul, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, American Horror Story, Anonymous Content, Babel, Bauer Benedek, BBC, Blood and Oil, David Kanter, David Lipsky, Donald Marguilies, Hulu, In the Land of Women, James Ponsoldt, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Josh and Jonas Pate, Keith Redmon, Mark Gill, Mark L. Smith, Martin Scorsese, Matt DeRoss, Me Earl and the Dying Girl, Nicholas Scott, Palmer Woods, Paramount Studios, Ryan Murphy, Samuel L. Jackson, The End of the Tour, The Revenant, The Spectacular Now, Tom Cruise, True Detective, United Talent, Warner Brothers

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