Finding Fellini

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...

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...

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger

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...

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...

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...

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...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman

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...

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf

A film is born three times -- in the writing of the script, in the shooting and in the editing. Robert Bresson

Where the writer's work ends the director's begins. Where the director's work ends the actor's begins. Where the actor's...