Author Archives: Saba Mohtasham

The actor’s struggle is nothing new. The reality of rejection and paying bills has always been part of the follow-your-dream package. How an actor can take that struggle and turn it into something advantageous is where the creativity comes in.

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is a man of many titles: a legendary filmmaker with a master’s degree, a Bruin, and, according to him, a has-been.

He used to have to strip down to near nudity in a small room full of uninterested audience members to prove he was more than just a guy with a laptop.

Riding down the rapids of the Chattooga River in a raft while clutching a handheld, underwater camera during the filming of the 1972 film “Deliverance,” cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond was not thinking about the threat of crashing into the rocks at any given moment. He was thinking about getting the shot.