Finding Fellini

Of this I am firmly convinced, that cinema today should be tied to the truth rather than to logic. And the truth of our daily lives is neit...

1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature 2. Objectivity 3. Truthfulness 4. Brevity 5. Originality 6. Compa...

1. The audience is fickle. 2. Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go. 3. Develop a clean line of action for your leading character. ...

The following are the most productive sources for Sci-Fi ideas according to Philip K. Dick: Psychology journals The works of CG Jung Zen Bud...

Many people, I guess, want to know exactly what it is they're supposed to think ... Well, my message is that I am not going to do their...

We shot our second round of Made Crooked epilogue scenes yesterday. We were on the front lawn of Reed College with Tara P. and Alex Cassidy...

I was so moved by the way he (Raymond Carver) told stories, what he told and what he didn't tell and how he made a story out of the slig...

If you're a certain kind of filmmaker, everything is personal, whether a movie is about yourself or not. But I think, for the most part...

1. Michael Clayton 2. Control 3. No Country For Old Men 4. Lars and the Real Girl 5. Into the Wild 6. There Will Be Blood 7. Cathedra...

I never had a plan. I don't how you can plan for it. God knows what the next thing will be. Tim Roth

With Jordan's encouragement, I've tried to let go of helping as much, or at all even, with the lights and the camera on set. The id...

For most of my moving toward long life, I've made decisions and plans in a decidedly reactive and whimsical manner. New York City, you ...

A few months back we ditched cable. No more Saturday morning cartoon bonanzas for our children. Aside from the initial tantrums that gave ...

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulle...

We did some filming last night, a series of interviews to help Made Crooked come together. For a long time I've felt defensive and asha...

You can't give your photograph soul with technique. I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms....

My wife has a job in Bangkok next month, a photo shoot for a Japanese company that wants to riff or perhaps rip off The Darjeeling Limited. ...

She wouldn't go with Brad Pitt if you paid her She's more into James Spader Saint Etienne

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. William Ralph Inge