Finding Fellini

I typed 11,000 words between Friday and Saturday night. This story is just pouring out of me. I haven't gone back and read any of it exc...

I've been kicking out 2500 words a day in about three and a half hours of writing this week. I now know where the story is going and rou...

After writing prose for an hour yesterday I spent several hours editing. In between I made a blog entry and updated my word count. I was v...

I'm at my office today trying to finish the edits of the scenes from Magnolia for class tonight. I spent too long installing necessary ...

... Novel. At least I'm writing what I would like to think is going to be novel. Once begun half done, as it were. I've been all ...

Some movies I've seen lately, graded academically Ironman B+ Quai de les Orfevres A Zodiac A- The Birds C Indiana Jones IV. D Harry Pott...

It was good to air a little frustration yesterday. Not only to get it off my mind, but it also prompted a little cutting work. One of thos...

It really isn't the season to be doing a lot of editing. I don't know though if I think any season is the right time of year to toi...

I've always found it difficult to find people who understand what I'm trying to do and who don't think I'm completely mad. L...

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he ...

Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan

The camera is the eye of the marvelous. When the eye of the cinema really sees, the whole world goes up in flames. Luis Bunuel

I gave that JGp assembly another look last night. I was able to give in a bit more to the experience of it. As such I'm starting to fa...

I'm feeling a bit insecure about this, hearing voices in my head. One of the reasons I dislike acting in my own films is the lack of se...

All good acting is about detail. It's about fighting generality. Paul Greengrass

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...