Career
It’s that time of year again. From Sundance to the Oscars, the Globes to SXSW and Tribeca, nominees and winners…
Observation is an act of creation. Whether or not that’s true for the cosmos, it’s true for clichés: they don’t…
Danny Madden (a.k.a. Ornana) has one rule: Make films the hard way, or don’t make them at all. “Sometimes it’s…
At some point on the way to becoming who we want to be, we have to stop being who we…
Creativity and loneliness seem to go hand in hand. Some even believe loneliness is essential to creativity — not only…
I recently heard one of my favorite directors, Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, The Revenant), say that his biggest concern for…
Creativity is full of paradoxes — not the least of which is the fact that having absolute creative freedom is…
In his TED talk on the value of creative sabbaticals, graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister describes a project he orchestrated in…
A film can be perfectly executed and beautifully shot, yet still ultimately waste the viewers’ time. As high-end tools become…
As David Foster Wallace famously put it: “Of course you end up becoming yourself.” Which probably just means that everything…
