{"id":2487,"date":"2011-09-19T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:02:19","slug":"smile-nod-and-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/smile-nod-and-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile, Nod, and &#8220;Drive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2011 LA FILM FEST: DRIVE Gala\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gKKrvgDA0KE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drive.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"drive\" width=\"320\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2490\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0716347\/\">Nicolas Winding Refn<\/a>, director of &#8220;Drive,&#8221; thanked Chilean avant-garde filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0423524\/\">Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/a> (see 2:10 into the video, above) at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival back in June for advice he received, which is inspiring for all to hear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Coming from Europe to America, I always thought I was going to fight the devil. And he told me that if I want to make my kind of films in Hollywood, I just had to to smile and nod a lot as everyone talked to me. So I smiled and nodded a lot and it worked out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/ericszyszka.com\/\">Eric Szyszka<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Winding Refn, director of &#8220;Drive,&#8221; thanked Chilean avant-garde filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (see 2:10 into the video, above) at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival back in June for advice he received, which is inspiring for all to hear: &#8220;Coming from Europe to America, I always thought I was going to fight the devil. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}