Beyond the Rhetoric

“Some people get into this business and they’re so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I’m going down swinging.” In light of the recent tragedy at the [...]

I have had the great fortune of overseeing several different projects in the course of my career. I did the best I knew how to early on, but I didn’t always get the results I wanted. I wanted to learn from my mistakes, and I tried new and different techniques in my quest for a [...]

“When I look at the net, I don’t see a goalie.” As with so many other people around my age group in Vancouver, I fell in love with the game of hockey during the 1993-94 NHL season. This was when the Vancouver Canucks went on one of the most epic playoff runs in franchise history, [...]

“‘Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs. No need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy [...]

I think we all have an innate desire to improve ourselves in some way or another. We want to run faster. We want to earn more money. We want to take better pictures and create better memories. And in our efforts to improve ourselves, we may set a number of goals and we hope to [...]