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“The everyday human gesture is always a heartbeat away from the miraculous — [remember] that ultimately we make things happen through our actions, way beyond our understanding or intention; that our seemingly small ordinary human acts have untold consequences; that what we do in this world means something; that we are not nothing; and thatContinue reading “Let Them Help You”

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar “We suffer more often in imagination that in reality.” – SenecaContinue reading “Suffer Once”

“I don’t feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.” -Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist and author “You’ll never understand me, never.  I’m deeper than China.  Than a star.  If I wanted to, I couldn’t tellContinue reading “Embrace The Mystery”

You can accomplish just about anything if all you have are these three items in your toolkit… TASTE. This takes time and you must constantly work to develop it. Focus on being specific over “good.” TENACITY. Be relentless and don’t be afraid to ask for what you want. Remember, “No” is just the first wordContinue reading “The Producer’s Toolkit”

I am the man, I suffered, I was there. Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person -Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself” “Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain” -Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, TheContinue reading “Pain And Game”

“Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.” – Ursula K. Le Guin “An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody elseContinue reading “Storytelling”

“I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen their profession because they have a dream of doing it and they want to express something about the world. That’s the same thing that I have with writing. Most of the good actorsContinue reading “Three Billboards Outside Los Angeles, California…”

You say goodbye and I say hello(Hello, goodbye, hello, goodbye) Hello, hello – song, “Hello, Goodbye” by The Beatles Thoughts are just thoughts and they are inevitable. It’s foolish to try and control them. As Jeff Bridges advises “thoughts are like secretions.” A practice for when the firehose of negative thoughts threaten to overwhelm andContinue reading “Hello. Thank You. Goodbye.”

Dear Reader.  I apologize for not writing any posts last week.   After a long battle with cancer, my dad, my hero, my best friend, John Francis Clark, passed away last Sunday night.  While he’d been suffering for a long time and I can take some comfort that I was with him and that he’sContinue reading “My Dad, My Hero, My Best Friend”

“When I give a genuine answer to the “if”, then I do something, I am living my own personal life. At moments like that there is no character. Only me.” -Konstantin Stanislavski As detailed in Isaac Butler’s terrific book “The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act“, one of the breakthroughs legendary director KonstantinContinue reading “As If”