Dave Gregory

Filmmaker | Director | Screenwriter
Building films in public
Documenting the journey to a Google Knowledge Panel

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@BMTSoraizon Love to see you smiling!! ❤️❤️❤️

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YAM MO BE THERE !!

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I will be there in a Terminator 2: judgement day STAN!!

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The first important thing Smokey does isn’t tell a joke.

It’s make a decision for Craig.

He literally says:

“I know you don’t smoke weed… but I’m gonna get you high today.”

Craig never asks. Smokey decides for him.

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Everyone remembers Smokey as the funniest character in Friday.

I think he’s also the reason Craig almost dies.

Hear me out.

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The first important thing Smokey does isn’t tell a joke.

It’s make a decision for Craig.

He literally says:

“I know you don’t smoke weed… but I’m gonna get you high today.”

Craig never asks. Smokey decides for him.

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Everyone remembers Smokey as the funniest character in Friday.

I think he’s also the reason Craig almost dies.

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John Singleton deserved an ongoing career at the level of Scorsese.

Boyz n the Hood at 23 years old.

The craft. The restraint. The specificity.

Hollywood didn’t lose interest in Singleton.

Hollywood lost interest in the stories he wanted to tell.
That’s the real conversation.

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Most people think No Country for Old Men is about a killer.

It’s about a world that stopped making sense.

Tommy Lee Jones isn’t chasing Chigurh.

He’s trying to understand how evil got this big without anyone stopping it.

The Coens made an action film about moral exhaustion.

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Three things I’ve learned writing my first feature:

Your first draft is supposed to be bad. Write it anyway.

The story you start with is never the story you finish with.

The only writers who fail are the ones who stop.

Still in the trenches. But I’m still here.

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Arrival does something almost no sci-fi film attempts.

It slows down.

Denis Villeneuve understood that the scariest thing about alien contact isn’t the aliens.

It’s the weight of communication.

Every quiet scene is doing more work than any action sequence could.

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Black Cinema gave us some of the greatest films ever made.

What’s the most underrated one that deserves more respect?

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Horror is the most underrespected genre in cinema.

It requires you to manufacture dread from nothing.

No action. No explosions. Just atmosphere and timing.

Directors who master horror can master anything.

Kubrick knew this. That’s why he made The Shining.

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@BMTSoraizon so I had a dream about you and wow, crowd surfing ? You wild girl 😂😂also you Germans in my headband I’m like is the is God trying to tell me something , low and behold I just realized your 25th birthday just passed , so I’d like to wish you happy birthday!

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Do the Right Thing is not about a race riot.

It’s about what happens when people stop being seen as human.

Sal didn’t lose his pizzeria because of hate.

He lost it because of one moment where he forgot who built his business.
Spike Lee made a movie about dignity. Not violence.

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In Heat, Michael Mann shoots LA like it’s a character.

Cold. Wide. Empty.

The city reflects the men in it — people who chose isolation over connection.

That final scene at the airport doesn’t work without everything the cinematography built before it.

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Working on my first feature right now.

The hardest part isn’t the writing.

It’s silencing the voice that says you’re not ready.

I’m documenting everything. The wins. The doubt. All of it.

Follow along if you’re on the same journey.

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Menace II Society is a better made film than Boyz n the Hood.

The Hughes Brothers were 20 years old and shot it like seasoned veterans.

The opening liquor store scene alone is a masterclass in tone setting.

Unpopular opinion. I’ll die on this hill.

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What movie made you realize film was more than just entertainment?

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This is Disclosure Day. Experience it in theaters Friday.