Wolfgang Hammer

technical components to it one being isn't how we make things and again i very much believe that the nature of artistic expression is in the human and the human intent but technology can help filmmaking is inherently a technological endeavor because you're representing the world via cameras

you're staging events to make them look as if they were real, but they're obviously not.

So in that sense, it's technologically mediated and always has been.

The third endeavor is going to be around distribution, but marginally.

And we're all three very interested in whether something can be done on the edges that espouses this 80-20 philosophy of, well, it's going to be very much a movie company.

It is very much a movie company, but maybe has a couple of points in the dominant worldview that it perhaps doesn't quite believe and wants to substitute something else for it.

Endless.

Absolutely endless.

It's an amazing thing to be able to talk to people like this.

And they're very different.

They're both founders.

They're both amazingly successful investors that have done the whole thing.

They've done it numerous times and they're very patient and generous, at least at this stage of the game.

They both have a real understanding and passion for the craft and artistic nature of storytelling.

Courage, complete comfort with calculated failure.

As in, if you know what you're doing, you're trying something and you know it's a trial balloon, it's totally all right if it goes wrong, as long as you really thought about it.

And there's a calculated risk as opposed to a random, let's see what sticks kind of risk.

really incredible ability to map out sort of in an imaginary way what could be always allowing that you're not seeing something but really mapping it out never sort of in a sense where it's this or that it's always it could be all these kinds of things and based on past experience this has really worked and then sort of branching off of that mostly I think risk tolerance I guess maybe it's a blessing of success that you just increasingly become tolerant like I said of calculated risk which in the creative endeavor is a requirement because you're going to fail

No, no, not on the personal, emotional level, not on a professional level.

Even just being around people who have a more benevolent attitude towards failure can be extremely helpful because one's own worth is not caught up in whether something works or not.