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September 30, 2004

What does my business card say?

Richard told me that my short film is my business card. It should say Nick Carr, XXXXXX. Laugh maker? Scare master? Tear generator?

So who is Nick Carr, and what kind of films does he want to make?

I want to make genre films, and do them well. I've always loved the very best of any genre, beit horror, sci-fi, crime, or mystery, and at same time appreciate the worst. It's tough though to pick a single genre, because I want to do them all. For example, I currently have a sci-fi flick, a gangster flick, and a horror flick that I'd like to write, and each of them strikes me as being equally promising. When people say "What kind of movies do you want to make?" I say "good films", but I should really reply "good genre films."

Howard Hawks seems to be this sort of versatile director - able to do comedy, crime, sci-fi, mystery, and westerns. Robert Altman is similar, though he takes genres in a direction I wouldn't want to go by redefining them as something else. Gosford Park is more than a straight-forward mystery, and The Player is more than an Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller. How can I work within the boundaries and still produce something new?

Nick Carr
Genre Virtuoso

Posted by nick at September 30, 2004 03:34 PM

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Posted by: jack at October 4, 2004 04:11 PM