A copied excerpt from Film Fury Magazine, issue #2, published in print only, Jan 2006

Film Fury: So tell us what's been happening lately, what new projects are you working on, how have things been since completing Reflections, we heard you just traveled to England and may have your fantasy project going?

DP: Nothings going on, just the usual struggle to survive. Financial problems, collection agencies, fee's, fine's, tickets, legal problems, traffic violation court dates, more fine's and fee's, mounting debt and so on. A neverending battle.

Film Fury: well what happened with England, the fantasy film? You've been on that path a long time haven't you? Anything else in the works? Your telling me after all you've accomplished in your 28 years of making indie films you still haven't signed a million $ contract?

DP: Nope, just broke and barely hanging on, as usual. Have no idea what happened with the Grizedale thing, the producers simply vanished as if they were abducted or something, it's utterly confusing but this kind of thing happens all the time and is usually expected from the outset. Often I just sit back and watch another pointless situation arise that I know will drift away into oblivion and wonder "what is the point? what am I learning here? what is the need for these things? to learn how to deal with relentless dissapointment?" Nothing else is going on. I simply don't know what to make of any of it.

Film Fury: So your not working on anything at ALL at the moment?

DP: Nope. Everything else in recent years fell through, well I can't even say it fell through because it didn't even begin to fall anywhere, I haven't even reached the point where I can officially say something has "fallen through", which is a prerequisite, things just surface then fade away. Often I wonder how I've managed to get ANYTHING accomplished. Why was I even planted with the interest in making films and why/how was I able to accomplish anything? What was the point of any of it? Why am I now still alive? Why am I even bothering to continue down a futile path of spreading around DVD's, scripts, etc? What am I doing? Why do I bother persuing impossible film projects?

Film Fury: Surely there must be something going on, everyone wants to know when to expect your next feature.

DP: Yea so would I, when I win the lottery I suppose, heck I don't know. look I don't mean to sound like the eternal pessimist, I'm just being blunt and realistic. Whats the fine line between realism and pessimism? I know too many "deluded optimists" in this town, it's almost a kind of schitzophrenic condition. I've always maintained if I was a genius at making money, stock trading, real estate whatever, that would be the only way of continuing to make films. Otherwise it seems the weeks, months, years just waste away with energy devoted to either survival issue's or the pointless pestering of other humans. (i.e. sending and "submitting" things to producers, film fests, actors, agents, friends, who-ever, for whatever reason or non-reasons,--and at an expense) rather than a more productive use of time and devoted interest.

Film Fury : Which would be?

DP: Well, working on a film of course.

Film Fury: Why don't you just start doing it? Others are out there shooting on DV with no money.

DP: For one thing, I'm in no position to just "start doing it", it takes some money, regardless of whether your shooting in 70mm or the Hasbro Pixel Vision toy camera, secondly, it may seem vainglorious but I have I have no interest in going back to no-budget shorts, I did that 10-15-20-25 years ago, the days of living in tents and cars for years to get a movie made are long over. It's done. There was a time where I would go through anything to get a new film made, regardless of how long, how many years, how much strife it took. It's done, those films were completed, those days are long passed. The need to pass that bridge is long over, what would be the purpose now? If I haven't graduated to some new degree by THIS point, then so be it, I'll become a burned out ambulance driver. And in this jaded, visually-over-saturated, corporate controlled, monetarily-rigged, punishment-and-fear based, no-more-risks-allowed-since-1982, everythings-been-done-a-thousand-times over, everyone is experiencing a different version of reality day and age? Shees, who the heck cares, does it even matter anymore? Even when I got into making films in the early 80's I felt it was too late, there would come a quickly approaching time of too many voices, too much going on, too many cable channels, decision-by-committee, the death of single-house cinema's, 70mm, real excitement, boundaries to break, etc. It's over, forget it, we've reached the era of media over-kill, now we're just withering away to a slow death.

Film Fury: You and Tony Robbins should start a show together.

DP: are you sure I'm not just interviewing myself?