Teaching is a craft

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

Don't you think it's time to start giving yourself enough reasons to be happy with your life instead of reasons why living miserably is your only option?

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.