Marlon Brando and Al Pacino were major influences on the 1965 Indonesian mass killings of communists.
At least that’s what Anwar Congo would have you believe.

Owen Clapp did not think he was good enough.

A musician since the third grade, Clapp still said he worried during his second year of college that he was not cut out for the rigors of the music world.

The process of Jonathan Coria’s filmmaking began with online YouTube tutorials and an assembly of gadgets from the local hardware store. He needed camera equipment for his new film but didn’t have the hundreds or thousands of dollars needed to buy one. So, Coria decided to make one himself.

Greed, lust and unfulfilled desires are themes that are prevalent within works of tragic theater.

Before working with his father on a film set, Mark Columbus did not realize that what started as a normal documentary would evoke difficult memories of their relationship, transforming it into an unconventional representation of their conflict-filled past.

Selling the film rights for $1, Salman Rushdie entrusted his magical realism epic novel “Midnight’s Children” to his friend and director Deepa Mehta, believing she could surmount such a troublesome adaptation.

While sitting in the UCLA library working on his screenplay, “Waking Hours,” Barnett Brettler began to cry. He had reached a solemn moment in the story when a character had to leave and, although people in the library stared, he could not help himself.

From age 13 to 15, Suzanne Bocanegra wore a body cast to treat scoliosis, drastically altering her body from month to month, one day having a spine curvy like the figure of Marilyn Monroe, while another day having it retain the flat form of a little girl.

Scott Griffiths has published best-selling books on art and beer, started a craft beer brand called Rhino Chasers, worked on branding for Fortune 500 companies, lectured in business classes at universities like UCLA and Pepperdine and most recently wrote a book detailing Renaissance men and the characteristics that defined them.

Dressed as her character Red Riding Hood, Santefort said she learned playing dead is one of the hardest aspects of acting.