Auteur Watch - Trey Haley

It's a perfectly lovely résumé here that this here Trey Haley has... It's times like this when the Awards section of the IMDb comes in handy.  When there's an overwhelming list of titles a person has, it's often best to see if any particular one of them stands out.  Looks like that one called "Don't Trust the B... in Apt. 23" is the odds-on favourite... I'm sorry, I mean The Man in 3B.  I always get those two mixed up.
But even though Trey Haley seems to be on a rocketship to the top of the Hollywood food chain... judging from his IMDb bio, anyway.  Sometimes, if you look at enough of these auteurs, you can kinda gauge who writes their own, and who has it written for them.  Auteur fans tend to gush differently than the auteurs themselves, and about different aspects of the auteur lifestyle.  Take the following quote, for example: "He is known for his positive spirit, ability to find creative ways to bring people together, and his passion to create projects that have the power to change the perception of how people see the world."  Vague enough so that you might not think you're hearing about a filmmaker.  "Positive spirit" and "Bringing People Together" isn't always the hallmarks of a director.  Stephen Sommers has a lot of positive spirit, for one... at least, while he was making hits.  Now he's stuck in the sulfur mines working on "Scorpion King" sequels.  Not very perception-changing stuff, I'm afraid.  And to give a shout-out to my arch nemesis, directors who use a starter pistol to bring a little order to the chaos of a movie set doesn't exactly count as "bringing people together," at least not in the sense that our current wave of social media social movements would probably prefer.  Sure, a little bit of that happened on the set of the new A Wrinkle in Time, but that can be overlooked.  It's Disney, after all!
But as a wise lawyer once quipped, few great accomplishments are achieved single-handedly, even in Hollywood.  If you want to go fast, go alone... I forget how the rest of that goes.  As for other quotes, Trey's favourite is one from Nelson Mandela: "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."  For some reason, I'm put in mind of the quote from Anaïs Nin: "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."  Or my grandmother who told my brother to be a bigshot.  Life seems to abound with little quotes like that: seize the day, reach for the stars, what have you.  It's the human being's curse.  I would disagree slightly with Nelson Mandela just on a minor technical point... clearly, he's never seen my cat go after a bit of string that I drag along the rug.  That's playing pretty small... but man!  You better be wearing boots when she goes after that string!
Ooh!  More quotes.  I've already used these to death, methinks... I gotta get new material.  I still recall fondly the time I was working for the student newspaper and they sent me to cover a talk being given by the college admissions specialist, and he was talking about crafting a good mission statement... whatever they call it for a college.  You know, your reason for going to college, and trying to keep it altruistic, rather than just saying that you want to become one of the elites and make at least a little more money than your dad did.  And this guy was talking about the quotes you use from people or celebrities you admire, and he said "If I have to read that Gandhi quote about being the change you wish to see in the world ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to..."  It gets used a lot, you see.  As for me, I was going to quote the Monty Python Drunk Philosopher song in some paper, but I looked at the top one in the stack and realized that some other dufus beat me to the punch.
I think what I'm trying to say is that, sure, it may be Trey's favorite quote... but has he lived up to it yet?  I was delivering the latest issue of the AARP magazine.  Melissa McCarthy about to flash the photographer in the trenchcoat is still on the cover, so I noticed this other blurb, which said "What MLK Means to Me by Tyler Perry."  Now THAT's what I'm talking about.  That's a G. D. auteur at work right there.  Sure, it's just a one line article that reads "I'm worth more than MLK ever was." but still!  It was on the cover, and people want to know what Tyler Perry thinks about things, while he's busy dictating scripts into a voice recorder for two new TBS sitcoms this year and Madea's Boo! 3: A Very Madea Netflix Halloween.  But even though Trey seems to be... yes, gotta get back to him.  Even though he seems to be on a rocketship to the upper, top echelons of Hollywood, he couldn't do it entirely alone, despite his managerial prowess.  When you get a New York Times bestselling author ... not auteur, no auteurs on that list... at least, not lately... an author on the make like Carl Weber, well, one can't help but team up with him, right?  Could Weber and Haley be the new Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond?  They should certainly hope so!  Sure, Carl's résumé is, like, way way shorter, but he seems to have the gift of painting mental pictures with his words.  But who has time for mental pictures?  Queen was wrong about one thing: we're not yet tired of all this visual.  Personally, I think there's too many outlets.  Of course, Dad is still busy using the YouTube app on his Dish box; he just figured it out!  Sure, he doesn't get too far past the list of the latest and the greatest of the hour, but he's still using it!  Anyway, keep on keeping on, Trey.  He's got about six titles he's currently working on, so things are indeed crappening.  Don't fizzle out just yet!