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Bio
Eric's experience has enabled him not only to get what he wants from his actors, but also manage the time efficiently as he moves to shoot fast, and waste little time.
In 1996, Eric got his first taste of Film Production as a Production Assistant. From there, he started working as a NonUnion Grip. After living in LA for two years, Eric returned to NYC. In the year 2000, he shot and edited a heartfelt. inspiring music segment for the SAG/AFTRA Strike, which in turn, got him his ticket to be a SAG Member. A winter later, he interns at Future Media Concepts, where he went on to learn Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, as well as a few other programs. Immediately, Eric was hired as an Editor. Upto now, Eric still shoots and edits his own projects, as well as work as a freelancer.
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Interests and Activities
Film, Music, Outdoor activities, Nature, Life, Experiencing Life, Kung Fu, Tai Chi, Qi Kung, Spirituality, etc...
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Favorite Movies
Seven Samurai, Cinema Paradiso (Original Cut), Mediterraneo, The Color Purple, Life Is Beautiful, Magnifico, ALL Indiana Jones films, Back to the Future films, E.T., etc...
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Favorite TV Shows
The Sopranos, Will & Grace, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Heroes (although the season endings are not as good as they could be), Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Chapelle Show, NY Yankees games, etc...
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Favorite Books
The Bible, The Harry Potter series, The DaVinci Code
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Favorite Music
A little bit of everything... from the Ramones to Depeche Mode to B-Tribe to A Tribe Called Quest to John Williams to REM to Metallica to Jeddrah to Ella Fitzgerald to Dean Martin to Frank Sinatra to Billie Holiday to NWA to Ice Cube to BDP and the list goes on *** to ***.
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Favorite Talent
Directing. Dancing. Karaoke.
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Favorite Quotes
FILM WISDOM
"Don't say yes until I'm finished talking!" - Darryl Zanuck
"A producer is a man who asks you a question, gives you the answer, and then tells you what's wrong with it." - producer Lamarr Trotti
"Directors have to be on set all the time, and one thing I've noticed as an actor in fifty-two pictures is that every time it starts to rain the producer goes back to the hotel and you all sit there and get soaked. And he also has more Monets and Picassos on his wall; and he always has a bigger house than everybody. In Hollywood anyway. I noticed that very early on, and I thought, that's what I want to be. I want to have all the paintings; I want to be back in the hotel when it's raining." - Michael Caine, explaining why he'd rather be a Producer than a Director
"This is a terrific script. It just needs a complete rewrite." - director Peter Bogdanovich
"I don't want to be right; I just want to keep working." - screenwriter Arthur Caesar
"When in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns." - Raymond Chandler
"It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script writer takes over." - Will Rogers on The Ten Commandments
"In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing." - Will Rogers on screenwriters
"When it's 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When it's 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles." - Neil Simon
"Hollywood stinks." - Frank Sinatra
"Hollywood is a place where they have great respect for the dead, but none for the living." - Erroll Flynn
"The mind does not take its complexion from the skin..." - Frederick Douglass
"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity... Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them." - Madame C. J. Walker
"Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before." - Shelby Steele
"When you are looking for obstacles, you can't find opportunities." - J. C. Bell
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." - Langston Hughes
"A person without faith has no future." - Michael J. Cheatham
"Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so." - Martin R. Delany
"If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose." - Jesse Jackson
"Fortune favors the bold." - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
"If you don't dream, you might as well be dead." - George Foreman
"I believe... that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death." - John H. Johnson
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"When you're creating your own shit... even the sky ain't the limit." - Miles Davis
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible." - Toni Cade Bambara
"Film is not to be played with. It may be our most powerful medium and should be treated as such." - Spike Lee
Credits
Director on HKN 420 (2008)
Director on The Meet Market (2001)
Producer on Lovesick (2002)
Director on Peace On Earth (2008)
Director on SAG/AFTRA Strike 2000 (2000)
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Stats
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Member since
4/20/2008