6.14.2009

A Killer Life


Chapter 1: Getting Used to the Dark
Lesson: Make yourself necessary.

Chapter 2: Target Practice
Lesson: Make the right enemies.

Chapter 3: Unreleasable
Lesson: Talent can come from anywhere.

Chapter 4: Pitching, Buying, Begging, Stalking
Lesson: At the Cannes Film Festival, everybody's a prostitute.

Chapter 5: Crashes and Burns
Lesson: Learn to walk away.

Chapter 6: All That Heaven Allows
Lesson: If you've got to screw up, do it for the right reasons.

Chapter 7: Dylan in Turnaround
Lesson: Act like it's happening until somebody tells you otherwise.

Chapter 8: Locking Picture
Lesson: The best films don't come from compromise.
They come from collaboration.

Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Trumans

"A Killer Life"
(How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood and Beyond)
Christine Vachon
2006

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