Finding Fellini

Technique has to enrich the action. Francois Truffaut

There is one thing with regard to filmmaking where I've long agreed and possibily fallen under the spell of Mamet's didacticism. It ...

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. Chopin

Just read James Frey's new book on the flight home. Los Angeles is a magical place. It's cloudy today in Portland but the morning ...

I've spent most of the past two days in my hotel room. I know what that might signify to one of my readers in particular, but I assure...

Jeremy (Brendan Robinson) has to go to the movies with his mom (Christy Drogosch). Things go from bad to worse when she wants to talk to hi...

Los Angeles City of Angels That's not smog It's vaporized dissapointment - Miss Lola Belle Here I am once more. Los Angeles. It...

I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Orson Welles

In 1998, about a month after my mother died, one of my roommates from my junior year abroad at a Mexican university came to New York City fo...

Once they're in that starting position and ready to go, it's really a case of nurturing, and trusting, and letting them have a good ...

I screened five of my short films for my in-laws the other night after a wonderful dinner at Wildwood. I noticed that there's a common ...

I'm knackered. The kind of tired that's bone deep physically and a fog has rolled in mentally that seems will never lift. Which is...

I've watched four silent films this week - Chaplin's City Lights and Modern Times, Lubitsch's Marriage Circle and Murnau's ...

A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus

Sheesh! The time is a flying. Perhaps I need to slow down. Though I often tell myself I need to do more. Which is it? Does packing it i...

Thank God I'm an atheist. Luis Bunuel

It's official - we are not going to get internet at our new house. We got iPhones instead so we can stay current via email and check th...

Last year when finishing Dangerous Writing I complained to a friend of having to come back down to earth. She proclaimed the virtues of doi...

Been awhile. No internet at the new house. Not yet, debating ever. This is what's on my mind. While I'm determined to finish some...

Artists should cut out their tongues for fear of not letting their work be self-explanatory. Henri Matisse