Billy Oppenheimer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Billy Oppenheimer

I first read about the Pixar team attending Robert Mckee's seminar in "The Cowboy, the Spaceman and the Guru: Character and Convention in the Screenwriting of Toy Story" (https://t.co/yj2NSKcVR5) It is also written about in "John Lasseter" by Richard Neupert… https://t.co/5GFZamiJf1

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David Foster Wallace was asked about his process for researching and organizing material for his long-form essays. “I take a hundred times more notes than I need,” Wallace said. “My first draft usually approximates somebody in the midst of an epileptic seizure.”

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The Damon Albarn clip is from this interview (https://t.co/M4xYT5rgrD) The Nick Cave quote is from this edition of The Red Hands File (https://t.co/tUkL0pfQT5) The Rick Rubin quote is from his book, The Creative Act (https://t.co/zc4lq8j00n) You can see https://t.co/3vvmcE4lkK… https://t.co/5b36ADUbGL

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Beyond habits, constraints can promote creativity. In 1959, the publisher Bennett Cerf bet Dr. Seuss $50 that he couldn't write a book using 50 words or fewer. He won the bet by writing "Green Eggs and Ham"—his best-selling book of all time. Biographer @brianjayjones writes: https://t.co/nsUPEuTmcg

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The broken shark story is told in "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" by Joseph McBride (https://t.co/5PzsG4v3iG) Spielberg also tells it here (https://t.co/Cnic8AHFyi) I learned about the Tony Hawk story here (https://t.co/CulUawPn0Z) and here (https://t.co/JVYoKYfxMG) The Cole… https://t.co/u1wAPT6Vsg

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I learned about George Lucas making Star Wars as a result of being denied the rights to Flash Gordon in George Lucas: A Life by @brianjayjones (https://t.co/NuW123qSrm) The Marcus Aurelius quote is from Meditations (https://t.co/xm1YZMsdqk) and The Obstacle Is The Way… https://t.co/cVL0iaoBI2

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The Matthew McConaughey clip is from this interview (https://t.co/Ow92au87eR) I also quoted from his book, "Greenlights" (https://t.co/VlVYqvQZJx) The Marcus Aurelius quote is from "Meditations" (https://t.co/xm1YZMsdqk) The Jony Ive quote is from here… https://t.co/swCynaK8RY

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I first learned that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote "In The Heights" while he was a substitute teacher in "Sicker in the Hear" by Judd Apatow (https://t.co/ZY1o6CvKqZ) He also talks about it here (https://t.co/57XGjfPf1q), here (https://t.co/u13dC1jMPI) and here… https://t.co/a1G58zWXJ9

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Tommy Kail tells the story of standing on stage alone here (https://t.co/wo9ueNOvT9) I learned about the concept of "Resulting" in Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts by @AnnieDuke (https://t.co/3HJrvsX7zo) The Hasan Minhaj quote is from… https://t.co/3HQSFlZSYt

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Paul Simon is one of the greatest songwriters ever. He says his output is a function of his inputs. For his Grammy-winning classic, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” for instance, he “pieced together” some Bach, some gospel music, and a line from a West Virginian scat singer:… https://t.co/HwmENXI2cJ https://t.co/lXY3xmQALN

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