Working Your Way Up
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Danielle Eden started out behind the camera as a dancer and actress, hoping to eventually transition into directing later in her career. But after a freak accident she found herself making the transition quicker than she could have imagined. We talk about the challenges creating her first documentary, dealing with rejection and what drives her.
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| 0:00.0 | I know all the ways that we can't get something done. |
| 0:03.0 | I know all the ways that people are going to tell you no, |
| 0:06.0 | and they're going to tell you it's implausible, and you don't have enough resources. |
| 0:09.0 | I want to work with the people who get creative, and they show me how we can get it done. |
| 0:13.0 | That's Danielle Eden. Among many things, she's an actress, dancer, and documentary filmmaker. |
| 0:18.0 | We talk about what it takes to finish a project, even when the odds are stacked against |
| 0:22.3 | you. |
| 0:22.7 | When I said I was going to make a movie in Arkansas, most people told me I was just legitimately |
| 0:28.1 | insane. |
| 0:28.9 | Like, you can't make a movie for $4,000. |
| 0:30.6 | Watch me. |
| 0:31.4 | We discuss how she made the transition from on-camera to director, developing trusting |
| 0:35.8 | relationships, and how to deal with rejection. |
| 0:39.4 | I just ask because, like, what are you going to say? |
| 0:41.3 | No? |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | Okay. |
| 0:43.1 | Like, certainly you will not be the last person to say now. |
| 0:46.2 | This is the ground up show. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay. Okay, and they're both rolling. And because you can see this one too anyway, right? |
| 1:06.5 | Like you can pop up just because I get paranoid because the first one I ever did was by myself |
| 1:11.2 | and you have to put a hack on these cameras because they only record for 30 minutes. |
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