[…] Kelly: I think it was less his work and more his work ethic. His longevity in the business is extraordinary. He’s still producing at 71 years old, and I have a huge admiration for that. He has always created. Even when we were little he would draw pictures for us to color in, and they were so much more intricate and inventive than coloring books from the store. His influence on me has always been to …read more […]

Kelly Marcel is my hero.

Dude, you're HER hero! [Stay tuned...]

Man, "Bugsy Malone"! I always have warm feelings after finishing that film, having discovered it quite by accident as a teenager. I hear what she says about "say-able" dialogue. I imagine Shakespeare running his dialogue through the filter of his company's actors, doing rewrites based on the lyricism of what he heard in real time.

Screenwriter Chris McCoy (Guardians of the Galaxy) tweeted that his 'film school' education came from working in a video store. Kelly Marcel. Quentin Tarantino. Curious who else in the GITS community has a similar background...

It'll be interesting to see if/when people will cite Netflix as their film education!

OMG NO WAY.