Filmmakers need to read.

"Read, read, read, read, read...." - Werner Herzog, Director Filmmakers need to read. Filmmakers are the creators of a larger dimension within a two-dimensional plane. Reading is the directg inverse: Two dimensional immersion to create ideas on a larger dimension in our minds. If we don't read, we cut off our direct inspiration and opportunities in half. Reading, a medium for communicating ideas for as long as we have been a species, gives us the ideas of others. Film, having had been around for a little more than 100 years, is a newer medium, yet more immersive with storytelling in fiction, documentaries, or simple founder videos for companies. Thinking like a caloric intake, fats have more calories per gram, while protein and carbs have less. The more calories per gram, the more satiating. Same for reading, it's like fats for information. The more we read, the faster we are satiated with knowledge (or a creative's perpective, the more information we can acquire). Remember our teachers saying "don't watch the film version of the book if you want the true source material". It's not because it's wrong, it's because they are missing out of the information. On the other hand, it doesn't mean that filmmakers don't stack the ideas in a satiated style for people to consume. The art departments, the audio/sound, the VFX, etc ALL play a part in delivering information, let alone style. My point is simply coming from the creator's perspective, and sharing if we don't indulge in the source material of paradigms, and perspectives, we miss out on quality information for our vision on the silver screen to be fully-fledged. Verbs on paper are actions on screen. Syntax on paper is the decision on screen between those actions. The more we can dissect the power of ideas and to repurpose those ideas into our own films is the opportunity in our creative voices while growing our empathy in ideas. And thus we can thank them for the hand-up in our art. Jonathan Abramovich