Finding Fellini

I really dig tall women. Sam Peckinpah

A young filmmaker can commit a lot of energy to a superior posture about the state of things - but my own experience has taught me that fash...

Heaven 2002 Tom Tykwer, Director Krzysztof Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Screenplay The interrogation scene. Philippa (Cate Blanch...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates...

I spent the morning at a memorial for my friend Helen today. The first hour and half in a Catholic church and the latter part of the day at...

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra

I just left an intense couple of hours in our editing suite watching a cut of our "shoot a feature film in three days without letting t...

I finished the rough cut of Klepto. I enjoyed doing it. I haven't enjoyed editing for a very long time. At first I thought it was be...

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. Ben Kin...

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. Stanley Kubrick

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Willem de Kooning

In spite of a severe cold, NFL conference playoffs, our wedding anniversary and my only day off this week, I just finished the assembly of K...

I'm feeling really good about the way 2007 is starting off. Moving on from the acting studio has freed up a lot more energy than I imag...

I'm just like Fassbinder, ... but without the drugs and the whores. Steven Soderbergh

I signed about fifteen autographs today. Yep. I'm a celebrity in the eyes of a class of fifth graders in Aloha. To be honest, remembe...

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. Mark Twain

A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington

Michael Caine asserts that if you're working too hard, you're not doing it right. Well, I think part of the problem I've had fi...

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else. Conrad Hall