Three Things I Learned About Making Movies (Monday Moment ep. 629)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It started with a speech seven years ago where one producer asked me for the right to turn the story she heard into a movie.

Several months later, she brought in a couple of her producer friends who agreed to propel the project forward. They brought in a screenwriter who delivered a brilliant screenplay. And a genius film director who agreed to lead the project.

Countless rejections followed from prospective investors who felt the timing was wrong, the risk too high, the likelihood of success too low. And yet, 47 financial investors stepped forward, determined that despite the odds, the story was simply too important to not tell right.

So, into St. Louis came more than 200 outstanding crew members working tirelessly to support the work of 52 principal actors and more than a thousand background actors, all to get to the point last Friday that Director Sean McNamara excitedly proclaimed, “And that’s a wrap!”

My friends, two decades into a professional speaking career, the past several months have by far been the hardest I’ve worked. Early mornings, long days, late nights, tons of stress, lots of risk, a few tears…and yet, it was by far the most fun I’ve ever had working in my entire life.

It was also a crash course in learning about an industry I knew nothing about before this journey began. Today, I want to share with you three things I learned about making movies that have nothing to do with movies … and explain what they mean for you.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast, Monday and Morning Moments, December 18th version with John O'Leary.
0:20.0	We record these each week so that we, you and I, can begin our days and these weeks
0:24.7	in awe and on fire with the burst of inspiration.
0:29.2	So where did it all begin?
0:31.1	Well, it started with a speech seven years ago with one producer in the room.
0:36.9	She asked me for the right to turn the stories
0:39.6	she just heard into a movie. And then several months later, she brought in a couple of her
0:45.3	producer friends who agreed to propel the project forward. They brought in a screenwriter who
0:50.3	delivered a brilliant screenplay, and then a genius film director who agreed to lead the project.
0:57.5	Countless rejections followed from prospective investors who felt the timing was wrong,
1:02.5	the risk way too high, the likelihood of success entirely too low.
1:08.3	And yet, I love that expression, and yet. And yet 47 financial investors stepped forward
1:15.5	determining that despite the odds, the story was simply too important not to tell right. So into St. Louis
1:24.2	came more than 200 outstanding crew members working tirelessly to support the
1:29.4	work of 52 principal actors and more than a thousand background actors, all to get to the
1:37.0	point last Friday that director Sean McNamara excitedly proclaimed, and that's a wrap!
1:48.0	And that's a wrap. that's a wrap my friends two decades into professional speaking the past several months have been by far the hardest
1:53.5	I've ever worked by far early mornings long days late nights tons of stress lots
2:00.1	of risk yeah maybe even a few tears.
2:03.7	And yet, it was by far the most fun I've ever had working in my entire career.
2:09.4	It was a blast.
2:10.9	It was also a crash course and learning about an industry that I knew absolutely nothing about
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