Emmy-winning filmmaker Paul Saltzman shares lessons on purposeful art and trusting creative instincts
By
Tom May
The bagel they save for the regulars. Don't skim, savour.
Summary
Paul Saltzman, an Emmy-winning filmmaker who accidentally captured iconic Beatles photos in 1968 as a novice photographer, shares hard-earned lessons from a career spanning 343 films. He emphasizes having purpose, trusting instincts, and how meaningful creative work can create lasting impact beyond measure.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledIn 1968, aged 23, Canadian Paul Saltzman travelled to India with a cheap Pentax camera and no idea how to use it.
He'd never studied photography. He couldn't work out exposures. His only guide was the folded instruction sheet inside a box of Kodak film showing little sun symbols next to f-stops.
Yet the pictures he took that February—of John, Paul, George and Ringo, whom he'd unexpectedly encountered at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh—are now considered some of the most iconic shots of The Beatles ever taken.
Having since made 343 films and won two Emmy Awards
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