Walt Disney’s well-worn grooves
‘The thing I resent most is people who try to keep me in well-worn grooves. We have to keep breaking new trails. We were panned for “Fantasia”, ... Read on
Walt Disney’s literary license
Whether a fairy tale, a fable or a novel was involved, adapting a story into a full length animated feature constituted a very new kind of exercise unlike theater ... Read on
Walt Disney’s big bang
It was actually in 1935 when Walt Disney was watching a program of his cartoon shorts at a Paris movie theater – an unimaginable practice in the United States ... Read on
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s voice
The voice too — I am working with a teacher on the voice. When I have perfected it the larynx will show no ring of conviction except the conviction ... Read on
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s smile
And a smile — ah, I would get me a smile. I’m still working on that smile. It is to combine the best qualities of a hotel manager, an experienced ... Read on
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s happiness
My own happiness in the past often approached such an ecstasy that I could not share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it ... Read on
Berlin bombing raid
Ed Murrow on a bombing raid over Berlin, 1944. I began to see what was happening to Berlin. The small incendiaries were going down like a fistful of white rice ... Read on
Space and time
Write a story that transcends space and time. Beyond linear space and time. A story that isn’t bound by paper but one that transcends mediums and meanings. ... Read on
We are all one
A dry, convoluted and shifting tale that ultimately has a merciless Arab terrorist forgive the Israeli Mossad agent who killed his father (right at the point in the climatic ... Read on
Storytelling by chakra
To reach the broadest audience, you need to move the process out of the head and into the heart with sincerity and emotion, into the gut with humor and ... Read on
Fellini is a born liar
“For me, the things that are the most real are the ones I invented. “I invented my youth, my family, my relationships with women and with life. I’m a ... Read on
RIMINI – GRAND HOTEL – BALLROOM – 1993
It’s late. Everyone has left. Federico is by himself, alone. He sits down at the grand piano and plays a single note. He looks down and with ... Read on
What does Fellini believe in?
“I believe in prayers and miracles.” ... Read on
Giulietta e Federico
A film on the last year of Federico Fellini’s life. Something along the lines of “Il Viaggio di G. Mastorna”, the mythical film he would never make. The script ... Read on
Just one single shot
What would Fellini like to have done with a movie? “I would like to get once and for all at the essence of cinema and the complete movie, as I ... Read on
Nathanael West had always been a distracted driver
In New York, driving into the city for a meeting, he once ran eleven consecutive traffic signals after leaving the Lincoln Tunnel and eventually crashed into a cab; his ... Read on
Fellini road trip
A Fellini film following him and mystic author Carlos Castaneda on their great road trip south of the border. A film about wanting to make a film. Strange phone calls, ... Read on
Into the white
There ain’t no death. There ain’t no light. Into the white. ... Read on
Toying with the Pablo Escobar story
Already a few thing you probably don’t know about the man who became the world’s richest drug lord. His family was almost slaughtered by militia when he was a ... Read on