Creative Principles
Welcome to Creative Principles, I'm your host Brock Swinson. Here I'll be speaking with writers, directors, actors, musicians and more. We'll discuss the habits, routines, and methods of a creative life.
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Ep588 - Craig Zobel, Director ‘The Penguin,’ ‘The Hunt,’ ‘Westworld’ & ‘The Leftovers’
“I was really into THE BATMAN,” says Zobel. “So much so that I had reached out to him after I'd seen it. I had happened to have been on an email chain with him from years prior about another kind of movie thing, and so I had his email and I just reached out.” Craig Zobel is a director, producer, and screenwriter best k
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars in the Netflix series THE LINCOLN LAWYER. He will next be seen starring as the title character in PEDRO PARAMO, the directorial debut of Rodrigo Prieto based on the iconic book by Juan Rulfo, and was recently cast in a lead role in JURASSIC WORLD 4 opposite Scarlett Johansson. In THE LINCOLN L
Ted Humphrey is an accomplished writer, producer, director, and showrunner. He’s earned acclaim for his work as a producer on the CBS hit show THE GOOD WIFE in which he was honored with multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, and Writers Guild nominations for Best Drama Series. For his episode “Boom,” he received a Writers Guild
“We are an underdog culture. We love the underdog story. And I think with wrestling, and certainly what we tried to do with HEELS was that,” says Martin. “Regional wrestling, that's like about the lowest level of showbiz you can get and people are doing it truly because they love it because it means something to them b
Jac Schaeffer is an accomplished screenwriter best known for her groundbreaking work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She served as the head writer and executive producer for WANDAVISION, Marvel's first TV series on Disney+, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany. Schaeffer's background includes THE HUSTLE which st
In 2021 Mary Neely and Kareem Rahma met at a Brooklyn comedy show. A week later they found themselves crammed at a downtown restaurant, elbows tucked and leaning forward, deep in discussion about an age-old argument: are men only nice to women who they want to have sex with? A settlement was never reached. Not long aft