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#6 – Rick Rosenthal (film director & TV producer) at White Water Films

October 12, 2016 by tombenedek@gmail.com

Rick Rosenthal (Transparent, Bad Boys, Halloween II) discusses wearing multiple hats in both film and television, and the efforts of his production company, White Water Films.

We talk about:

  • Selling vs. Not Selling Scripts
  • Bonding in Television vs. Film
  • Producing vs. Directing in Television
  • Working on ‘Transparent’
  • Script Notes and Editing for the Long Haul in Television
  • Improvisation and Mapping Out Seasons in Television
  • “Is this Story a Movie or a Series?”
  • Today’s Movies and Budgets
  • Producing vs. Directing in Film
  • Investing in Productions and Setting Expectations
  • Balancing Film and TV Projects
  • Casting Big Names
  • Building and Maintaining Relationships

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Quotes from the show:

“You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make a duck wear a saddle. I thought that sort of summed up Hollywood well for me.”

“Television needs… to sort of look at the way novels are structured and layered, and [how] things are set up and developed over time. Most television hasn’t been like that.”

“Your role as a producer… is to make sure that the ship doesn’t hit the rocks, or at the very least, doesn’t hit the rocks under full steam. Yet, at the same time, you have to give a certain amount of creative freedom to get dangerously close to the rocks.”

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