Even the most celebrated Hollywood directors began their careers making low budget films. Learning how to make a movie on a small indie budget is crucial for every up-and-coming filmmaker. Shooting a movie is a daunting task, but the good news is there are many tricks to shooting a feature on a shoestring budget, and...Read More

This snippet of Merv Griffin’s interview with Francis Ford Coppola, from 1979, a few months after the release of “Apocalypse Now” touches on some pretty crucial issues regarding moviemaking, then and now. The first thing that Griffin asked him—quite logically—concerned the grand scale of Coppola’s filmmaking (“You’ve always done things in a very big way”).Read More