well, what I’m working on…
‘Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it’s not particularly dignified or […]
Enjoying ’24/7 work mode’ to be honest. Standing in the eye of the hurricane but still… Help, I need somebody Help, not just anybody Help, you know I need someone, help When I was younger (So much younger than) so much younger than today (I never needed) I never needed anybody’s help in any […]
A pilot pitch to polish… Five character voices to master… A quick scene to shoot and edit… A paycheck to nail down… And Ramadan coming up fast… So…you may not get one of my deep, introspective posts for a few weeks. In the meantime, I offer you this. Enjoy!
‘Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.’ – Muhammad Ali Most of you know, looking at my generation or the guys directly before me, I model a lot of my activism on what I always heard about 2Pac: 90 percent of the selfless things that I do, […]
So, as I made the transition from the Writer’s Need (‘this is the story I want to tell’) to the Producer’s Need (‘how can this be done in the most efficient way possible’), I looked at the story I had most recently written, and the comedy was there, but I wasn’t getting enough heart. […]
I had a weird dream last night. I was lying in bed and this beautiful actress (doesn’t matter who it was) sat on the edge of my bed and asked how I was doing. I imagine only actors have this problem, but I had to let her talk for a few minutes while I […]
The only thing I have to add on this Donald Sterling mess is he’s making some of the shorts I’ve written earlier this year seem damn prophetic. Stay tuned on that regard. Moving on, they always tell you to ‘write what you know’. It’s only now on the back end, as I’m writing shorter […]
I stand corrected. The past month or so as I’ve taken on…you know, I can’t even tell you off the top of my head how many projects I’m simultaneously working on, on some level right now. But as a lot of golden opportunities all hit me at once (because that’s the way it has […]
I’m scapegoating Stevie Wonder for most of this, but now that my attention is back on finishing the Lady rewrite, and more importantly since I’m on a relatively tight deadline, I picked three movie star names out of the list of ‘actresses you guys suggested I should write parts for’, and I’m using those ladies as […]
As I told a friend last night, this is shaping up to be a ‘burn out’ summer for me. The script for Lady is progressing nicely, there’s a grant I think I can pull off to finance Angel (wouldn’t that be nice?); now there’s a new opportunity on the horizon which meant today was spent writing another of […]
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