Finding Fellini

Saw Cam Archer's Wild Tigers I Have Known at the PDX Fest last night. It blew me away. I was tired and certainly had some fidgets, but...

Another Spring and another script from the author of High Desert Psalmist. The synopsis he handed to me a week ago didn't grab me. Som...

I've been practicing the following: Thinking about film and seeing films critically without being a critic. Rather I am seeking to adv...

"This is not the entertainment industry," it reads, but "folk art for a high tech society" that represents "a small...

There's a magic thing that happens when people get together. I mean really get together. I've been hanging around all kinds of peo...

I'm seventy or so hours of work into this week and Friday is just getting started. I'm working Saturday morning as well. That'...

The other day I wrote of suspiscions regarding a colleaugue's interst in working with me. Today that friend is in town. We had breakfa...

... all my troubles seemed not all far away. Started the day without hearing from any of the players I sent emails to regarding an upcoming ...

A successful movie is only ever about two things: the script and the cast.

it seems a terrible way to live: wanting someone to listen to other than the voices in my head too scared to tell them to shut it afraid no ...

Consider the work of God;   who can make straight what he has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:13 (RSV)

Tonight we were watching Six Feet Under Season 4, the one where David gets abducted by the crackhead. I love SFU, but I was really not into...

Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung

Last Fall was a busy time for me - moving house, starting a day job, teaching, final rewrites of Original Glory and having our third child. ...

1. Would you know a great script if you read it? Yes. However I am often eager to be generous and therefore forego asking some tough questi...

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. - Godard You can steal more money with a briefcase than you can with a gun. - My father Al...

Today marks the one year anniversary of this weblog. I can not adequately express the importance of maintaining a public record of the proc...

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only the infinite passion of life. Federico Fellini

Today I got to do something quite profound on my lunch hour. I picked Henry up from Kindergarten and took him to a sporting goods store to ...