My Dinner with Andre Royo, Part III: From Nothing to Something

What does it mean to start at the very beginning? For that matter, what does the concept of “beginning” mean? And how exactly does a beginner “begin”? These are the questions I now began to contemplate as my understanding of things was shattered by the concept of “beginner’s mind”…

“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of a few youngsters…”

“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of a few youngsters who’ll make films with the little money in their pockets without shackling themselves to an industrial mindset.”

–Robert Bresson

“No dialogue!” I said, aloud. “No dialogue at all!”

Sometimes the absence of dialogue speaks volumes more than the spoken word…