The Current State

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Ever since wrapping on Ash, I was terribly exhausted... excited, but very exhausted...
Through sacrifices we finished our movie... it was ambitious and very controversial, but somehow we managed to make it...
It took us from L.A. to N.Y. and we were finally taken seriously by the "industry".
It drained all of my resources... my money, my spirit, my sanity, etc... but it was damn well worth it...

Now, that we are on the verge of selling the rights to Ash to a distributor and throughout these past months of peddling Ash to anyone who would listen... Some people say, "move on... get on to the next project... don't get stuck... bla bla bla..." Well my response is, I would love to but I honestly didn't feel like making another movie... or just making a movie, for the sake of making a movie...

I have 3-4 treatments (future scripts) that I've been working on over these past 3 months (one is a comedy, the other a very personal drama, Capitulo Duos and one other nameless genre) and I have to say that none of these ideas really ignited my fire... I don't think it's because they are uninspired but because, I don't think they're challenging. I think I can do them pretty well, and to me that would be very boring to do...

HOWEVER, yesterday I had a flash of lightning inspiration... the kind of creativity that is sudden, the kind that you have to drop everything and write down...

Well, I wrote it down, and I am very excited about this... I can't give any details until I flesh it all out, but finally I've found what I've been looking for.... I doubt that I could do it, and that's whats' exciting about it...

Paul Haggis (director of Crash) said in an interview: "Only if I'm sure I'm going to fail at this, I'm gonna try it..." I agree very much... I honestly didn't think that Ash was going to turn out the way it did, but we did it, we pushed ourselves, and we were pleasantly surprised with the results... It was a scary script to make, but somehow we found a way... It wasn't easy, but it was very challenging...

If it were easy, everyone would be doing this... right?

NOW, this future script, sounds scary and very tough to make, but now we have more friends that can help us out, so who knows "what" or "where" we'll be in 2008, but it sure sounds like an adventure!

Anyone up for it?
:-D

PS: I've changed the look of the blog to make way for new projects...!