Finding Fellini

When I was in the second grade I absolutely adored Evel Kneivel. I was thoroughly obsessed with him. There was a whole line of toys that I...

Steven Soderbergh is the hardest working man in show business. My god, what doesn't this guy do? He shoots his movies as Peter Andrews...

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. Robert De Niro

My daughter Maisie turned five today. Our home was filled with sweet little girls this evening. I'm so so very grateful and proud. My...

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. Tennessee Williams

You know when you're watching television or a movie -- you see pretty pictures, you hear the opening chords of a great song and for a mo...

A preview of Lumberjack Storytime

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero

Dashing off a list of all that I am grateful for doesn't come easy for me. There are many things of course seemingly requiring little t...

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner

When you do all the talking you only learn what you already know.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

October Moore as Clio in Clio Tells His Story Tara Piccolo and Christy Hernquist in a workshop scene for Back To Baghd...

We all want to look at a car crash. I'm not sure what we're looking for. Do we want to see that everyone is safe? Are we hoping f...

The softness I speak of is my growing inability to laugh off nihilistic violence in movies that claim to offer something more than a genre f...

Writing the title of this post made me reflect on the absurdity of arrogant racist and patriotic paradigms in the United States. Not just b...

Just listened to a podcast interview with the Coen Brothers by Creative Screenwriting editor Jeff Goldsmith . Lots of questions about outli...

I'm rereading Alexander Mackendrick's book on filmmaking. The main thing that sticks with me is his discussion of the opening scene...

Rumor has it that the The Pumpkin Patch's proud new owner is Gus Van Sant. Nothing scandalous about it, but it strikes me as very stra...

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. Sean Penn