Finding Fellini

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten. Spike Lee

This week kicked my ass. I over-committed myself in unexpected ways. School conferences for all three kids. Two for my oldest who is chan...

Do you have to have a reason for loving? Brigitte Bardot

I begin this week having not really enjoyed an ending to last week. In some ways Mondays are my transition days - simultaneously taking a b...

If I knew what I was after I probably wouldn't bother to go after it. Joe Strummer

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. Tom Stoppard

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon

We locked picture on Dangerous Writing today. I'm very happy with the film, watching it makes me remember how much I love directing. W...

I went to a screening of a locally produced feature the other night. It was standing room only. I was one of the standing. Which probably...

To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes...

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals. Julius Erving

Been running and gunning lately. Thoughts are flying, life is flowing - it's one of those periods where reflection isn't forthcomin...

Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening. Gertrude Stein

Start at the end. Mike Nichols

Music starts to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. Ezra Pound

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you oug...

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. Cervant...

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. Faye Dunaway

Don't think of your film outside the resources you have made for yourself. Robert Bresson

I didn’t think “Taxi Driver” was going to be a big hit. Next I was going to make a musical, “New York, New York,” and it was supposed to be ...