Finding Fellini

La Strada of an Indypedantic Storyteller

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

The Master Says 038

›
You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of int...
1 comment:
Monday, June 26, 2006

Resonance

›
Walking home from a film last night, a friend asked me what are the moments in films that not only stick with me, but hit me with comparable...
Friday, June 23, 2006

The Master Says 037

›
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger
2 comments:
Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Critic

›
The critic is a nihilist. While those that claim that nothing matters may be closer to the truth that there is no Truth, they aren't mu...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Tranquilizer Darts in my Psyche

›
I am a lover of language learning to hate my lover. She is my muse as well as my oppressor. You're really going have to have to deal w...
1 comment:

The Master Says 036

›
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedr...
Monday, June 19, 2006

What A Bunch of Amateurs

›
Word History: When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, “I am no amateur of th...
Friday, June 16, 2006

The Master Says 035

›
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

The Days Seem Like Weeks

›
Suppose it has been but a few days since my last write, though in emotional years it feels much longer. I'm going through it. That...
2 comments:
Friday, June 09, 2006

Folk Wisdom 006

›
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Monday, June 05, 2006

The Master Says 034

›
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you di...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

The Master Says 033

›
The reasonable man encounters circumstances and adapts himself to them. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt circumstances to hi...

Euphoria

›
After the weekend of Made Crooked I experienced a heightened sense of myself, a dizzy euphoria. I felt in my body and beautiful. As it was...

Advice on Memorizing Lines

›
Don't. I read some actor's blog where he counts the number of lines after he's highlighted his then divides them by the number o...

The Master Says 032

›
Cinema isn't like chemistry where you can predict that ten grams of one substance, when combined with five grams of another, will give a...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Hearts and Minds

›
It's pretty much a bona fide historical joke that LBJ wanted to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese. I can't seem to reconcil...
Thursday, June 01, 2006

Notes on Future Films

›
I am always thinking about my next films. Currently I am attempting to focus my attention on cutting, but that is not a simple transition f...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006

The Master Says 031

›
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf
Monday, May 29, 2006

The Master Says 030

›
A film is born three times -- in the writing of the script, in the shooting and in the editing. Robert Bresson
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Storytelling

›
Where the writer's work ends the director's begins. Where the director's work ends the actor's begins. Where the actor's...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Signore Direttore
In my pursuit of mastery of the telling stories, I often encounter more of Fellini's fodder and folly than his methods and genius.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.