Allan Dwan is a big hero of mine!

I had to take this picture of the poster that hangs above my favorite booth at Coral Cafe. If you ever get chance to read Peter Bogdanovich's, "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors" there is a fantastic interview with Allan Dwan.

He made over 400 feature films and many Westerns where he didn't even have a script. He just made them up on the fly.

The other night I was watching Kung Fu Theater on KHIZ TV64 and they had an old friend of mine, filmmaker Jeff Burr on for an interview. At one point he mentions a former boss of mine, Charles Band who Jeff has also done work for, by saying how Band wanted to make his films faster and faster.

"If the film is two hours long Charlie wanted it made in two hours!" said Jeff.

It was hilarious the way Jeff said it!

Then I started thinking, that this was in fact what I was trying to do in my workshop. Granted, I'm not trying to make midget puppet alien monster doll movies, but I am getting 10 Actors to improvise a feature film within a few hours.

They may not be polished, professional, or even pretty films, yet I believe every film we do will have something to say about the human experience, but with a little nasty talk and dirty jokes.