James Jeffrey

2. When a young director you came up with gets a shot at a feature, he will never be able to take you along with him. At those heightened entry budget levels, they will demand a veteran DP. They never pair rookie director with rookie DP. They'll gladly take a chance on a new director, but never on a new DP.

I see this happening far too often to make that statement true:

Badlands - first time director, first time DP

Blood Simple - first time directors, first time DP

Slacker - first time director, second time DP

Boyz N the Hood - first time director, second time DP

Mallrats - first time director, first time DP (not counting Clerks)

Reservoir Dogs - first time director, first time DP

Eve’s Bayou - first time director, second time DP

Buffalo ’66 - first time director, first time DP

American History X, first time director and DP

Girlfight - first time director, first time DP

Being John Malkovich - first time director, second time DP

Wolf Creek - first time director, first time DP

Layer Cake - first time director, second time DP

Spun - first time director first time DP

Napoleon Dynamite - first time director, first time DP

Half Nelson - first time director, second time DP

Frozen River - first time director, second time DP

Moon - first time director, first time DP

Quid Pro QUo - first time director, second time DP

District 9 - first time director, first time DP

Sound of my Voice - first time director, second time DP

Attack the Block - first time director, first time DP

Beasts of the Southern Wild - first time director, first time DP

Palo Alto - first time director, second time DP