Mass media is driven by coercion rather than by generosity - preposterously budgeted  movies are marketed to us with such aggression, with such force and profligacy, that we go to see them more out of fear than any real interest. These films do not offer...
Read MoreIf you're trying to get a truly artistic project off the ground, then finding actors with a similar culture to your own, a similar outlook, a feel for a similar aesthetic, can be as important as technical ability. Certainly this is true if you want...
Read MorePreconceptions are too often used as an excuse for inaction; "oh, I won't bother trying to get that project off the ground because the little I know about it suggests to me that it probably won't work." Â Truth is, we don't really know until we...
Read MoreNew blogpost up about the making of Mutual Admiration Society. Check it out here. ...
Read MoreActors who say that they'll quit if their career is not at a certain point by a certain age, are  setting themselves up for a fall. Why? Because the actor is not fully in control of what happens in his career, and so he cannot...
Read MorePlaced alongside eachother, the following quotes on the nature of creativity and the artistic process, form a fascinating tapestry of insight. Creativity is a mysterious process, it is not intellectual and comes from a place we do not fully comprehend. I offer the following patchwork of...
Read MoreIt's frightening to commit to doing work we love. It's much more comforting to come up with a bunch of excuses and only do work we don't really care about or even work we hate. Committing to the work we love, raises the stakes for...
Read MoreI have written previously about the important impact the work of Jim Jarmusch has had upon me - but this evening I will find myself at a previewing screening of his new picture, Only Lovers Left Alive, which is then followed by a live show...
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"Mutual Admiration Society (2014) is the new upcoming collaborative feature film by Rouzbeh Rashidi and James Devereaux. Mutual Admiration Society is an abstract experimental crime movie and the sixth feature length film by Rashidi and Devereaux." More info soon....
Read MoreSometimes, we develop an emotional attachment to a piece of work, or to a performance. Perhaps, for us, it was a real creative victory, perhaps we finally gave the kind of performance we always wanted to (maybe a situation not as common as we would...
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