Finding Fellini

In order to be a great writer person must have a built-in, shock-proof crap detector. Ernest Hemingway

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. Claude Mon...

Saw American Gangster last night. Pretty lame. Not bad or horrible or unwatchable, but disappointing all the same. Like if you go on a da...

We attended a meeting at my son's new school this morning. Being a Waldorf school, the school discourages computers, television and vid...

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. Jean Cocteau

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. Kingsley Amis

An appointment was canceled at the last minute today so I went to the movies. I did a sneaky double feature -- two first-run movies for the...

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...