1) Write, perform, shoot, edit, have sex, again and again and again. Find your original perspective, find your style, change it, find another, go back to the first. Learn to sell your idea because you’re going to need to be the best salesman on the planet. Nobody else will sell you like you sell yourself. Nobody else will get the favors you get for yourself. Be passionate, be stubborn, and be nice at the same time. Make tea for the people who work for you and with you. Find a producer who believes in you and make that partnership matter.
2) Don’t be afraid to ask questions. The joy of being a producer is you’re never too old to learn and never too shy to ask the right question. Then ask the same question again, ask someone else, ask a DP, ask a grip, ask the director, ask your mum. POV, that’s what makes one person right and the other brilliant.
3) Drones don’t always do what you want them to do. Don’t believe what the operator tells you they can do.
4) Ilya Naishuller’s ‘False Alarm’ for The Weeknd because it’s just been shortlisted in the AICP Music Video category.