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  • you're about to see a clip from filmmaker David Hoffman.

  • That's me.

  • This particular film was not shot by me, but it's a lesson worth watching.

  • My company has a job to take pictures of the windows at the Empire State Building, which are being put in The cameraman slash director, very important, goes in to film the scene with this old Italian guy, and the guy begins to talk, and my classic great director cameraman starts rolling.

  • He forgets about the job for 16 minutes a total time of 16 minutes, and he shoots this incredible man.

  • And I decided to make this little 13 minute movie about this New York City electrician's Who's got a New York state of mind?

  • Wait Oh, E way taken was a ghostbuster.

  • One look familiar.

  • A lot of people goes postal.

  • When I was in, was carried to see that may enable a piece of pipe in his head.

  • That was kind of like that.

  • Like this.

  • I'll show you a picture.

  • We're gonna get a piper.

  • Knew I sure exactly where Leading party.

  • I was like this.

  • You look at the movies.

  • Forget in a moment like this.

  • But what with the pipes.

  • I swear you're picking the booth.

  • You guys can talk and work as a talking work.

  • You work, right?

  • State of mind Member dropped.

  • Billy Joel, Right?

  • State of mind.

  • New York State of mind.

  • New York state of mind is that people came, brought their minds there.

  • Anybody's excited because somebody is where you tell them.

  • Tell me why they're excited.

  • I'm not excited.

  • They're right here because I need the money, but money and mother goes together.

  • Us if you need the money.

  • Yes, Your mother, your father.

  • Your question.

  • If you needed money, would you?

  • Actually, Mother, Your father this'll man took this route?

  • Yes.

  • Your mother Father doesn't want to give nothing.

  • You know why has your story when the address, Larry Okay was listening.

  • My father took me bowling.

  • Waited two days for away years ago when you went bowling at a way for a lady.

  • Oh, there is only a blackout way.

  • Had 1 to 77.

  • No one.

  • So my father says All right, kid, come on, Let's go.

  • Get up.

  • Get up.

  • Wake up, Papa.

  • Good of all how to go buy the shoes.

  • Had sneakers on the guy goes He said My father, you know you need going through.

  • I have 15 cents, you know?

  • I don't know.

  • Bullets through I got sick is that I'm gonna let my father go.

  • Nothing.

  • Hey, all the kids want a hit?

  • A party called me kid.

  • Yes, To buy shoes to follow us.

  • It's a kid.

  • You don't need no shoes.

  • I got the apology.

  • You don't sneak a 15 cents my body.

  • Let's get the hell out of here.

  • You could tell that that all rest of the world, my mother would have paid a $1,000,000 for the students today.

  • It's a big world.

  • Okay.

  • I'm on my way out looking at shoes to walk outside.

  • Kids had no shoes.

  • Kids who had no shoes, eyes.

  • That nation was that long ago.

  • I'm very happy to be here.

  • Why?

  • I'm happy here.

  • I did it for a living, you know.

  • Good.

  • That's it.

  • Happy why they're there.

  • That's what it should be told.

  • People.

  • Everybody wants to go further to go one step.

  • Remember that movie one step beyond simply invite you to explore with us the amazing world of the unknown.

  • Take that one step beyond four years this year.

  • 44 years.

  • It's gonna be my list If everything goes on schedule.

  • Knows my steps, even it goes questing ended up top about.

  • People think that some jobs depended on others.

  • Maybe some jobs are more important.

  • Another.

  • But everybody's got a job.

  • Everybody's on.

  • OK, who you are.

  • You find the one pressure and has he got a job?

  • Good.

  • Just like Booth every time you see that way.

  • Yeah, That's why I started yet.

  • But when they make a story, why is it on every Because you missed up, understand?

  • When I was getting married?

  • $1000 for the picture.

  • May hasn't photography.

  • For that reason alone, I'll never get married again.

  • Uh, like my father, you know the rest of the story.

  • And now you know the rest of the story?

  • There's no rest of the story The star we gotta be written yet People think the stormy has it ending, you know, end, go to the end.

  • Years ago, the electric chair and electric chair had remember one time I was hooking up electric Tristan, Why?

  • I'm gonna kill something with us, Said on the armature.

  • Yamanouchi s said you could be sure of that.

  • You must be sure Rusty House had a commission.

  • One could be sure.

  • I know about you guys.

  • I gotta go home.

  • No, I got homework and cop, widow and, you know, go friend and Internet for you all got food because his health was to get my stuff.

  • I don't believe in that.

  • What?

  • I believe a lot of dream and helps too.

  • You don't believe I'm dreaming?

  • I'm a dream job.

  • I'm a joke of a dreamer.

  • You think I'm working?

  • You've been working Hardly old.

  • A space shuttle.

  • You never see the people you see smoke.

  • Never seen people do the work.

  • You have a copy of this you do for a living.

  • That's, uh, show.

  • Besides ghost Russell made another movie.

  • I got the role.

  • All right, gentlemen.

  • Office that.

  • Think of pretty girls.

  • Ain't that tomorrow you start with that, right?

  • My papers.

  • What else?

  • I need it.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • So the lesson I'm trying to share by putting this up is seized the moment.

  • Obviously, the guy is wonderful at that moment in his life.

  • He's got things on his mind, his wife and stuff like that.

  • But he's willing to talk.

  • The director stops what he's doing, stops the job and starts just being with him, firing off questions.

  • It's absolutely wonderful.

  • So if you liked it and you want to see more David Hofmans got thousands more you'd like to show.

  • Please subscribe and contribute.

  • Www dot Petrie on dot com forward slash all in a day And if you D'oh, I'll be able to do this after next 30 40 years, right, Thanks.

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