The blog for aspiring & established filmmakers of independent films. by ted hope.

“How Would You Really Enjoy Spending Your Life?”

“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You will go on doing things you like doing in order to go on living; that is to go on doing things that you don’t like doing — which is STUPID.  Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, that a long life spent in a miserable way.”

Thank you Alan Watts.  Hat tip to Joseph White.

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Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself.

Meet Ted

Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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