Finding Fellini

It's difficult to talk about these songs in depth, that's why they're songs. Eric Clapton

Jennifer Aniston and Woody Harrelson are in town to make a film called Management. According to sources Aniston is very down to earth. Ye...

At bottom, I am always making the same film, to the extent that what arouses my curiosity, what interests me definitively, what unlatches my...

Saw Michael Clayton this weekend. Tight bit of writing and acting. Tom Wilkinson was stellar. As was Tilda Swinton and Sidney Pollack. C...

My films are not born from logic but from love. Federico Fellini

The Japanese studio, Shochiku, that produced Ozu's films has opened a theme park of sorts. Ozu sits near the Mitchell on short sticks d...

I'm not sure it's not better to suffer than not to suffer. I think that in order to really are about yourself, and particularly som...

Anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they're like poison to the filmmaker or artist. They're like a...

I am open to what is irrational. I open doors to intuition, because rationality is really death. Nothing that happens makes sense anyway. ...

I've been exposed to a few things in the past couple of days that could lead to deeper cynicism. For the record I hope I've made it...

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront. George A. Romero

What was the long-term result of the global student demonstrations of the sixties? (It seems to me that the most lasting effect was unabashe...

Nobody can rip anybody off. When somebody takes something that they've seen and makes their own thing it's flattering. Nothing is ...

I recently read some old posts in my blog from Spring of '06. I was really working through some stuff. While I'm sure I still have...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald

This was the exact blaster I got in 1980. I used it to tape hip-hop off of KBOO on Saturday nights. Otherwise it was tuned into KGON. At ...

I'm making a short film this week called something like the title of this post. October Moore is going to tell the story of the first t...

Forgive me father for I have cinned! I didn't keep my plans to go see Red Desert last night at the Film Center. I would have had to go...

I really liked this movie. I'm not going to say a lot about it. It's very visual and highly stylized at points, sometimes to great...

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but from "good vs. good. Leo Tolstoy