I've learned a few things from my time in the trenches. and I wrote some of them down.
1. You can't rely on everyone
2. You have to rely on everyone
3. Know your position, but more importantly, know what position you are not.
4. Get coverage
5. early is on time, on time is late.
6. Know when to answer a phone call, and when not to.
7. Sound is 90% of your movie
8. You can't be socially retarded
9. Know when to get paid, and when to go pro bono
10. Take lots of pictures
11. Shitty script equals shitty movie
12. "I should have spent more time networking" - Jesse
13. Its the Director's chair, not the Director's bench
14. NEVER, EVER ask a PA for coffee. They WILL put their dicks in it.
15. Steal shit.
16. You can't be in front and behind the camera at the same time. Make a choice you douchebag.
17. Be a filmmaker not a filmfaker
18. Fuck bees.
more to come, I wrote them down in various place, I just have to find them now
