HEADS UP MY FRIEND – there is a recounting of an intense violent story that happened many years ago in this transmission. I am telling it because there’s valuable insight for actors and public speakers included. I directed a documentary, 7TH STREET, about my experience growing up in Alphabet City, NYC. It was shot over […]

You ever achieved something, gotten a great new job, or had a sweet windfall? But then you had the thought, I shouldn’t share that. Maybe the thought was that someone would feel “less than” if you told them. Or maybe the thought was that revealing good fortune would make you prone to some kind of […]

I’m very happy about it. But what will make me even happier is to hear when the same is happening for you. After spending a couple years writing and then promoting my book (Lose Your Mind: The Path to Creative Invincibility) finally in January I was ready to get back to my first creative love […]

You probably heard last week that the great Robert Duvall moved on.  What a master of the craft. I had the honor to work with him on the film A Civil Action, directed by Steve Zaillian. It was one of the first studio movies I worked on.  As a young actor I wanted to learn […]

I got something for you to try. Give yourself a couple minutes to nourish. Nourish your creative spirit. Ten steps to presence: Feel anything in your body. Receive a breath into that area to feel it more. Discover what is around you as if seeing it for the first time.  Let go of ‘knowing’ what […]