Good Is the Enemy of Great

I am attending a film festival this week in LA to promote a film that I recently scored called “In the Eyes of a Killer” with my director Louis Mandylor. I have met a grip of great people at this fest and have seen many great films, all by talented filmmakers that at one time or another… needed film composers!! (Hint hint, nudge nudge, wink wink… Get out there and network!!) In a conversation with a group of directors and producers yesterday, the talk turned to producing movies. One of them said, “Deane, why don’t you produce in addition to compose? You are a such a good producer… you should just do it as another…

“Luck” Has Nothing to Do With It

I’ve been on my back for the last 24 hours with the flu. I don’t know how I got it, except to say that lately I’ve been running pretty hard on very little rest, and so I think it was just my turn. When you’re sick you can’t do much, which is a real pain in the ass for guys like me who hard time sitting still for five minutes. I’m pretty sure it’s God’s way of telling me that I need to take a break. Today, I got that chance, and it provided me with an opportunity to share something with all of you that I thought was pretty cool. In one of my…