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
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.”