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Ode to Los Angeles
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The Give and Take of NYC
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On Directing: Then and Now
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The Fog
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
I’m being cheeky with the title of this post, but you know what they say about jokes… they usually have some truth to them.
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Ode to Los Angeles
Memories of a place close to my heart
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The Give and Take of NYC
I started drafting this post on an Amtrak train from New York City to Philadelphia two weeks ago.
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A Dream
Last night I had a dream that I’ve had before - not the exact same dream, but certain elements.
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Art as Resistance
One of my favorite movie lines, from David Mamet’s State of Main, happens when Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character pulls Alec Baldwin’s character out of…
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The Five Stages of Making a Film
We finally finished the short film Traveling Mercies that I mentioned in my last post (yay!).
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On Directing: Then and Now
What's it like to direct after a hiatus?
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Writers Gotta Write
What happens when life gets in the way?
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Do What Makes You Happy
The only answer that matters.
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I write about filmmaking, writing, and life as an artist. Sometimes I also write about loss.
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