“So when we are seen, expressed, and healed through our stories, we give that gift to the world. We move from giving the gift to the world to being the gift because we show others that they can be seen, expressed, and healed. And that changes us from a bunch of...
“I’m attracted to stories about problems created by adults that children have to deal with…problems not of their own making. Children didn’t create war. You don’t go into foster care because of something you did, it’s because of...
“We want our lives to be boring. We want the art to be exciting. And you get that by finding the beginning and the middle of the end is just sight and sound. How about make every single sight and every single sound palpably, measurably move the story...
“Carmine Appice has played with Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, so many bands. So studying with Carmine, it just changed my drumming life. But he taught me some valuable lessons that were so important to me. One was, if you’re playing because you want to get...
“I love backlight because it’s pushing the actors toward us. It’s really that sense of the halo of backlight, which for me, metaphorically, I think actors are angels. I mean, sometimes, you know, you can hate them, right? But I do think that...
