The Meanings Hidden in Plain Sight
There are moments in your education when someone says something so simple that it permanently changes the way you experience the world.
For me, one of those moments happened in 1999.
Learning to See Beneath the Surface
Essays on storytelling, creativity, filmmaking, and the search for a well-directed life. Some lessons take years to understand. Others arrive in a single moment and quietly reorganize the way you see the world. For me, one of those lessons began with a question that followed me through years of teaching filmmaking: Why do some stories stay with us while others disappear almost immediately? For a long time, I thought the answer had something to do with technique. A better came
WHY I RARELY GO TO THE MOVIES ANYMORE
I used to live for Friday night movie premieres. I don't anymore. This isn't because I've stopped loving cinema. Quite the opposite. I've spent nearly thirty years studying storytelling, and somewhere along the way I realized I wasn't falling in love with new movies the way I used to. Here's why.
