"Brother....Mother. It is they who lead me to Your door"--Jack, The Tree of Life

 

"It were well to cast kingdoms aside and the domination of the entire earth and sea and sky, if, by this spurning, one might attain this vision"--Plotinus, on beauty

 

"The Fatherland for us is there whence we have come. There is the Father. What is our course? What is to be the manner of our flight? Here is no journeying for the feet; feet bring us only from land to land. Nor is it for coach or ship to bear us off. We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing, a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use"--Plotinus, on beauty.

 

"For in a sense the art of medicine is health, the art of building is the form of a house, and man generates man; then, apart from these there is that which as the first of all things moves all things"--Aristotle, Metaphysics Book XII

 

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

--Plato

 

"Those whose philosophies root themselves in general unaffirmitive principles of skepticism are pretty affirmative of such reasoning"--Myself

 

"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent"--St. Augustine

 

"Without God, I can't. Without me, God won't"--St. Augustine

 

"Who are you who live in all these many forms? Your death that captures all. You too are the source of all that is goin’ to be born. Your Glory, Mercy, Peace, Truth. You give calm a spirit. I understand it. Courage. The contented heart" -- Pvt. Edward Train, The Thin Red Line (1998).

 

"All they sacrificed for me. Poured out like water on the ground. All I might've given for Love's sake. Too late. Dyin'. Slow as a tree. The closer you are to Caesar the greater the fear" -- Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, The Thin Red Line (1998).

   

“My heart is restless, O God, until it rests in Thee” -Saint Augustine

  

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe"-- Saint Augustine

 

"Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death. By the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste -or foretaste- of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires" -- J.R.R Tolkien

 

"She gently reminded me that all must die. 'Tis enough, she said, that you, our child, should live" --John Rolfe, The New World (2006).

 

"Everything a lie. Everything you hear, everything you see. So much to spew out. They just keep coming, one after another. You're in a box. A moving box. They want you dead......or in their lie".--First Sgt. Edward Welsh, The Thin Red Line (1998)

 

"A glance from your eyes, and my life will be yours"--First Sgt. Edward Welsh, The Thin Red Line (1998).

 

I wish I lived in L.A.; will live in L.A. or San Diego or Phoenix one day because I love the desert and nature. I love taking photos of nature and objects in it; I rarely take a portrait shot. I also love the work of Ansel Adams--if you haven't guessed already.

I am a huge film buff and am making it my goal to become a film director/writer. I also love studying Cinematography and seeing the works of such greats as Roger Deakins, Robert Richardson, Dante Spinotti, Andrew Lesnie, Vilmos Zsigmond, Emmanuel Lubezki, John Toll, just to name a few.

I would love to see New Zealand one day

Actually for that matter I would love to see the world and step foot on every continent before my time is up.

 

Interests:

1. Film Directing and Writing 2.Photography/Cinematography 3. The Desert 4. The West 5. Traveling 6. Baseball---L.A. Angels 7. History

 

Favorite Books & Authors:

1.Cormac McCarthy 2. J.R.R Tolkien 3. Ray Bradbury 4. James Ellroy

 

Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors:

Oliver Stone-Nixon, JFK, Platoon. Francis Ford Coppola--Godfathers, Apocalypse Now. Paul Thomas Anderson--Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood. The Coen Brothers--O' Brother Where Art Thou, No Country For Old Men. Clint Eastwood--Mystic River, Letters From Iwo Jima. Ridley Scott--Alien, American Gangster. Michael Mann--Collateral, Public Enemies. Christopher Nolan--Memento, The Dark Knight. Peter Jackson--The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Lovely Bones. Terrence Malick--The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life. Martin Scorsese--Goodfellas, Shutter Island. Fernando Meirelles--City of God, The Constant Gardener. Stanley Kubrick--2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange. Frank Darabont--The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile. Sidney Lumet--Network, Dog Day Afternoon. Curtis Hanson--L.A. Confidential, The River Wild. Robert Zemeckis--Cast Away, Back to the Future. John Boorman--Deliverance, Hope and Glory. Peter Weir-- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Way Back. James Cameron--The Abyss, Titanic.

 

Favorite Music & Artists:

Anything Jazzy and the Blues and Bluegrass/ Salsa and Latino/ Rock 'n' Roll.

  

Films I'd love to make one day:

 

Adaptations: Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark and/or Child of God. James Ellroy's American Tabloids or one of his "Hepcap" novels. Dark Tower graphic novels. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (reinvented in Motion Capture).

 

Original Ideas: Drama about drugs surrounding teenage/college student's lives. Drama about three brothers in World War II. Scifi/Drama/Action film about Aliens hunting humans; similar to the short story The Most Dangerous Game. Spaghetti Western or regular Western. Childhood world that my brothers and myself created---it's about stuffed Santa Clauses fighting action figures (it sounds crazy, but it works---and it would be huge as a 3D and Live-Action film).

 

Biopics: J.R.R Tolkien. Vladimir Guerrero. Pancho Villa.