Finding Fellini

The Romans create a desolation and call it peace. Tacitus

I told you not to call me here! Originally uploaded by Signore Direttore . Summer of '03. On location in Geneva, NY for ROAD a...

Ever wonder why Egyptians are depicted in such a contorted fashion? In a word, essentializing. Each body part was recorded in its most cha...

I write to discover the next room of my fate. Saul Bellow

My friend Michael got married yesterday. It was a beautiful ceremony attended by many friends and family from both near and far. I was tou...

Most movies use music the way athletes use steroids. There's no question that you can induce a certain emotion with music -- just like...

Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola The Compound Scene - Capt. Willard/Martin Sheen goes to the intelligence compound to get his orders...

Insights do not produce growth until they are accompanied by specific actions. or, as my buddy Carl Gustav-Scott was fond of saying: Willing...

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life...

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton

There's no democracy on a film set. The director has a vision of the film that he has to get into the heads of everyone involved. Roman...

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring ...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. Liv Ullmann

The Marraige of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Maria Fassbinder Maria Braun is on the bed with her lover, a black American soldier, when her long ...

Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say Please share my umbrella Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows Under my umbrella All that summ...

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it...

Hou Tsien Tsien's Three Times played at the Whitsell Auditorium this weekend. Hou is one of my favorite filmmakers. His films are extr...

There are only two curses in life. One is when you don't get what you wish for. The other one is when you do. Oscar Wilde