You can be alone, with a camera in your hand, and you can walk. In that moment, the medium sheds the expectations attached to narrative production. You don't need to have something specific in your mind. You don't need to have in mind that you have to do something with it at some point. This is freedom.
Yeah, within reason, as long as we carry out the roles properly. I mean, it's not a total free-for-all, where you can kind of go and decide, it's a little bit of where you end up. Bruno is that type where he understands the different roles and plays them particularly well. And Bryan has done very similar. So has Matheus [Cunha], as well, playing sometimes through the middle and sometimes off the left.
The Belgian coach, a former defender himself, is at the helm of one of Europe's most fearsome attacks and spoke about incorporating the outrageous set of weapons in his arsenal into what still needs to be a coherent style of play. Do you just take Harry Kane, Luis Díaz, Michael Olise, and Jamal Musiala, and say: let them cook? Well, sort of. In Kompany's philosophy, it is more about carving out 'space for creativity' - that is, the freedom within the structure.
"I try to foster an environment of optimism," says global chief creative officer and partner, Aaron Starkman. You only need to look at his LinkedIn bio to understand his stance: 'We will not sell Rethink,' it boldly spells out, in all caps. "I want a young, creative person to know if they have a crazy idea, it's probably going to happen, as long as it's right for the brand."
Garris' premise for Masters of Horror, which debuted 20 years ago, was optimistic and nostalgic: let legendary genre filmmakers tell stories without the restraints usually imposed by Hollywood. The budgets wouldn't be exorbitant, but they'd be enough to tell proper, terrifying, and most importantly, creatively liberating stories. And while not all of them would be classics, one can see why many of these directors are regarded as cinema legends.
"You don't want to be trading your integrity for exposure, which I think a lot of times happens inadvertently on social. Everybody wants to participate, and I think that's a beautiful thing, but you also want to be really careful of protecting your peace and setting some boundaries."