Finding Fellini

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply wan...

We're in Carlsbad, California in order to fulfill Henry's three year obsession with going to Legoland. Today's the big day. I ...

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau

I spent much of Saturday night and yesterday driving to California. I've made that journey south on I-5 many, many times in my life. I...

There's a Morgan Spurlock quote floating around indiewood that goes something like, "This isn't where we are going to make our ...

You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra

At Portland Center Stage. Thoroughly enjoyable. Laughs and articulate language. Actors with good looks, voices and timing. Oh joy. Very ple...

While I am very fortunate and lead a comfortable life, I am not a wealthy man. The areas in my life that seem to be lived on a scale of deca...

Do I love making films? No, not really. It's been a colossal struggle. I've labored with the technical side of it, the interperson...

Let me say it very very LOUD - Danny Boyle is a hack. He's a music video director. I can never forget I'm watching a movie when watc...

What a lovely combination. I've enjoyed being at high elevations this week on Mountains Hood and Bachelor. Snowshoeing on Sunday and s...

This HBO mini-series is awesome. I read the book a few years ago and I have to say I liked the show a lot better. Not that the book isn...

It took me a long time to get around to the most acclaimed show ever to be canceled after one season on television. It was worth the wait. ...

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure ou...

Finally saw Rachel Getting Married tonight. What a wonderfully truthful film. I had stayed away from it based on comparisons to Margot at ...

This morning I cycled to my office to meet a camera rental customer. Usually I work out and then go to the office. Lately there have been ...

The past week I've been on my own with three kids. One of whom has been ill, as I have been. We are managing, but it takes a tremendous ...

My wife leaves for a work trip to Africa tonight. We spent some time hiking the Ridge Trail in Forest Park. It's a thousand plus foot ...

A friend of mine quotes a famous friend of hers on her blog as saying that if a resolution doesn't embarrass you, it isn't challengi...

It's been 2009 for about a week now. The sound edit of DW has resumed. Some visual effects work is in progress. I've met with my ...