The Church of Baseball
Author: Ron Shelton
Release: July 5, 2022
Tagline: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
Publisher: Knopf
Genre: History, Moviemaking, Baseball, Biography
ISBN-10: 059331977X
ISBN-13: 978-0593319772
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The process of writing is also one of discovery.
While working in isolation, the writer is likely envisioning a movie that will never get made.
Everyone is nervous about a rookie, but I was calm and confident. I tend to focus better in crises, and moviemaking is a series of small fires that you try to identify and nuff out before they turn into conflagrations.
Once a corporate mind is made up, all reason and judgment are forfeited.
In Day for Night, Francois Truffaut’s wonderful film about moviemaking, the film director says, “Shooting a film is like a stagecoach ride in the Old West. When you start, you are hoping for a pleasant trip, but pretty soon you just hope you’ll reach your destination.”
Baseball is not like life, as people love to say, but it has rhythms that linger.