DAVID AUBURN - Pulitzer & Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Screenwriter & Director

DAVID AUBURN - Pulitzer & Tony Award-Winning Playwright, Screenwriter & Director

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Playwright and Director

I think the big thing writing for the theater has given me is the awareness that it's possible to inhabit another person's subjectivity fully enough to give voice to a set of experiences that aren't your own and you can do that in a way that gives solace and interests people. We're all capable of those kinds of acts of imagination that can bring us closer to the subjectivity of other people.

From Titanic to The Mindy Project: SALVADOR PEREZ on Designing Iconic Characters - Highlights

From Titanic to The Mindy Project: SALVADOR PEREZ on Designing Iconic Characters - Highlights

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President · Costume Designers Guild
The Mindy Project, Pitch Perfect trilogy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Veronica Mars

Whether you're telling a story for the people at work or you're telling a story for your character on camera, I think that we tell a story every day by what we wear.

The Art of Costume Design with SALVADOR PEREZ, President of the Costume Designers Guild

The Art of Costume Design with SALVADOR PEREZ, President of the Costume Designers Guild

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President · Costume Designers Guild
The Mindy Project, Pitch Perfect trilogy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Veronica Mars

Whether you're telling a story for the people at work or you're telling a story for your character on camera, I think that we tell a story every day by what we wear.

Powering the Future: PAULA PINHO on Just Transition and Energy Policy at the European Commission - Highlights

Powering the Future: PAULA PINHO on Just Transition and Energy Policy at the European Commission - Highlights

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Director of Just Transition at the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy

She is responsible for Just Transition, Consumers, Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Energy security. She has been previously Head of Unit at the Directorate-General Energy in the European Commission. She was responsible for Energy Strategy and Policy coordination and then for Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy and Decarbonisation and Sustainability of Energy Sources. She was Acting Director for Energy Policy where she has overseen notably the work of international energy relations, financial instruments and inter-institutional relations.

A Just Transition: PAULA PINHO Discusses Energy Strategy in the European Union

A Just Transition: PAULA PINHO Discusses Energy Strategy in the European Union

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Director of Just Transition at the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy

She is responsible for Just Transition, Consumers, Energy Efficiency, Innovation and Energy security. She has been previously Head of Unit at the Directorate-General Energy in the European Commission. She was responsible for Energy Strategy and Policy coordination and then for Renewables and Energy System Integration Policy and Decarbonisation and Sustainability of Energy Sources. She was Acting Director for Energy Policy where she has overseen notably the work of international energy relations, financial instruments and inter-institutional relations.

Cognition and Its Complexities w/ EARL K. MILLER - Prof. of Neuroscience, MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Cognition and Its Complexities w/ EARL K. MILLER - Prof. of Neuroscience, MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

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Picower Professor of Neuroscience
MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory & Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

There are a lot of distractions in cities. So it's always good to maybe take some time out, be in a quieter place with no distractions so you can let your thoughts run. And that leads into the creative process because new ideas, new thoughts and where they come from. They come from following the garden path of associations in your mind. One thought leads to another, leads to another until your mind is in a new place it's never been before. Or you put two thoughts together that were never together before, but now they are because you managed to somehow follow this garden path of thoughts from one thought to the other. That's where creativity comes from, that's where your ideas come from, seeing things in a new way, seeing things that were never together before. And if you have constant distractions that interferes with that process.

Inside the Mind with Neuroscientist EARL K. MILLER - MIT Picower Institute for Learning & Memory

Inside the Mind with Neuroscientist EARL K. MILLER - MIT Picower Institute for Learning & Memory

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Picower Professor of Neuroscience
MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory & Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

There are a lot of distractions in cities. So it's always good to maybe take some time out, be in a quieter place with no distractions so you can let your thoughts run. And that leads into the creative process because new ideas, new thoughts and where they come from. They come from following the garden path of associations in your mind. One thought leads to another, leads to another until your mind is in a new place it's never been before. Or you put two thoughts together that were never together before, but now they are because you managed to somehow follow this garden path of thoughts from one thought to the other. That's where creativity comes from, that's where your ideas come from, seeing things in a new way, seeing things that were never together before. And if you have constant distractions that interferes with that process.

A Journey Through Art: IAN WARDROPPER's Vision for The Frick Collection - Highlights

A Journey Through Art: IAN WARDROPPER's Vision for The Frick Collection - Highlights

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Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director · The Frick Collection

I firmly believe that the arts should be a part of everybody's education. It's not just learning the history of art, but it's about opening up creativity as a means that can be useful to somebody throughout one's life.

Masterpieces Unveiled: IAN WARDROPPER - Director of The Frick Collection

Masterpieces Unveiled: IAN WARDROPPER - Director of The Frick Collection

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Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director · The Frick Collection

I firmly believe that the arts should be a part of everybody's education. It's not just learning the history of art, but it's about opening up creativity as a means that can be useful to somebody throughout one's life.

TODD KASHDAN - Award-winning Author of “The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively”

TODD KASHDAN - Award-winning Author of “The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively”

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APA Award-winning Author of The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively
Curious? · The Upside of Your Dark Side
Leading Authority on Well-being, Curiosity, Courage & Resilience

We're really talking about principled rebels. And when we talk about insubordination, we're talking about most of us live in these social hierarchies, and there's the idea, this started in the military and still goes on, where if someone at a lower rank questions or challenges a command or a norm that someone of a higher rank, that's considered an act of insubordination. And one of the main problems of that, I think anyone who's listening can acknowledge, is it depends on the quality of the idea of the person who's raising the question. I just realized there was this whole body of literature on minority influence that no one had put together into a book for the general public, and considering the racial reckoning that occurred during COVID-19, the extra attention to diversity, to disadvantaged groups, every moment of society, it just feels like it's more and more relevant of what I've been working on.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

Behind the Scenes of Ray Donovan with Showrunner Writer DAVID HOLLANDER - Highlights

Behind the Scenes of Ray Donovan with Showrunner Writer DAVID HOLLANDER - Highlights

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Showrunner · Writer · Director

They are very different skill sets and very different ways of approaching storytelling. Writing is very private. I find writing to be very difficult. I have an idea. I have a feeling, and then I write into it. That part of the process is the most painful and the most demanding. Directing is easier. It’s a very different skill set. It’s applying a story to the technique of how you film it, how it’s going to work. That part is so simple. The writing is brutally hard. There’s an architecture to every season that you write in television. I have to see the whole story. This big twelve-hour story. There’s a lot of math in that. There’s a lot of Where am I going? and How is it going to feel? Because at the end of the day, all I’m doing is trying to make people feel something.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

Showrunner DAVID HOLLANDER on Exploring Complex Family Relationships

Showrunner DAVID HOLLANDER on Exploring Complex Family Relationships

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Showrunner · Writer · Director

They are very different skill sets and very different ways of approaching storytelling. Writing is very private. I find writing to be very difficult. I have an idea. I have a feeling, and then I write into it. That part of the process is the most painful and the most demanding. Directing is easier. It’s a very different skill set. It’s applying a story to the technique of how you film it, how it’s going to work. That part is so simple. The writing is brutally hard. There’s an architecture to every season that you write in television. I have to see the whole story. This big twelve-hour story. There’s a lot of math in that. There’s a lot of Where am I going? and How is it going to feel? Because at the end of the day, all I’m doing is trying to make people feel something.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 2)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

In Memory of TONY WALTON · 1934-2022 (Part 1)

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Art and Theater Director, Costume Designer

Creativity is perhaps the ultimate mystery. I veer wildly between opposing views on it and have different feelings depending on whether the creator is isolated or a collaborator.

All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told w/ DOUGLAS WOLK - Highlights

All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told w/ DOUGLAS WOLK - Highlights

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Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels, Eisner Award–winning Reading Comics
Host of the Voice of Latveria podcast

I like the idea that your actions in the world can be motivated by both idealism and realism about how to achieve those ideals. I like the idea that morality is not simple. There is this idea that there are the heroes and there's the villains and you can easily tell who's who, and that's not so true as it used to be in comics and that's meaningful. One thing that is interesting about the Marvel story is there’s basically nobody who's just a bad guy to be a bad guy. Everyone has their reasons. Almost everyone is capable of redemption in some way, even the worst of the worst are capable of tremendous heroism and tremendous idealism and genuinely wanting to heal the world make it a better place.

DOUGLAS WOLK - Eisner Award–winner & Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels

DOUGLAS WOLK - Eisner Award–winner & Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels

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Author of NYTimes bestseller All of the Marvels, Eisner Award–winning Reading Comics
Host of the Voice of Latveria podcast

I like the idea that your actions in the world can be motivated by both idealism and realism about how to achieve those ideals. I like the idea that morality is not simple. There is this idea that there are the heroes and there's the villains and you can easily tell who's who, and that's not so true as it used to be in comics and that's meaningful. One thing that is interesting about the Marvel story is there’s basically nobody who's just a bad guy to be a bad guy. Everyone has their reasons. Almost everyone is capable of redemption in some way, even the worst of the worst are capable of tremendous heroism and tremendous idealism and genuinely wanting to heal the world make it a better place.

Academy Award-nominated Composer - CARTER BURWELL on Cinematic Storytelling

Academy Award-nominated Composer - CARTER BURWELL on Cinematic Storytelling

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Film Composer

When I look at a film, I normally think what is missing from that, and that's what I'm trying to bring. I'm trying to find something that I think isn't there and that I could bring that would make it more interesting, make it more cinematic, more dramatic.

Creating Iconic Scores - CARTER BURWELL On Carol, True Grit & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Highlights

Creating Iconic Scores - CARTER BURWELL On Carol, True Grit & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Highlights

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Interview Highlights

So my musical education just completely killed any interest in music I would have had. And it was only later when I was a teenager a friend showed me a little bit about improvisation on the piano and that got me back into playing and that's why I'm doing this now. It was very therapeutic as a teenager, as an adolescent just to sit at the piano and just express things that I couldn't express in some other way.