Don’t go to Film School, folks!  There’s a fair amount of anti-MFA stuff in the book, but there used to be a lot more before we slimmed th...

Let me tell you a little fable that also happens to be a true story... The same week I started at Columbia, an old friend from college lef...

Don’t worry, folks, there’s only five parts, and I am going somewhere with this... There’s a great scene in Casino that reveals the secr...

If I had to summarize the message of film school in two words, it would be these: “Never Compromise.” Occasionally, they would bring in in...

Doctors frame their degrees and put them on their office walls. They want you to know where they went to school, because then you’ll as...

This blog is basically one big fraud. The day I put up my first post, I had that freak-out that all bloggers have: “Why should anyone list...