DE PALMA'S ASSISTANT FINDS NOTE SCRAP TUCKED AWAY IN AN OLD BOOK
Tara Culp, who was Brian De Palma's assistant from around the days of Snake Eyes through Mission To Mars, posted the image above to her Instagram today. Scribbled on a Mission To Mars production pad, the notes provide an interesting glimpse of what it must have been like trying to set up times to meet with Ennio Morricone.
"I found this tucked away in an old book yesterday," Culp writes in the Instagram post. "It's from my Hollywood days. Working tirelessly as an assistant to Brian De Palma. It reminded of a time when we were shooting in Montreal, this powerful creative group of women on the set in high positions where asking me 'What do you want?' We would like to help you fulfill your dreams. They saw I was in a power position, they were from a different culture they were seeing something in me that I could not see quit[e] yet. The problem was I did not know what I wanted. This experience thrusted me into analysis in a attempt to figure it out. I worked hard and what I found was a different path. Now I am at that point again in my life. What is my purpose now wnd in addition how can I help younger women find calling. It's all about communication and a thirst for learning from others. Keep talking, keep helping and Happy Filmmaker Friday and just to keep it as real as possible life really is a shit show right now :)"