Brian Weiner

If a writer brought me a screenplay for consideration and it was spelling out the last four years, I would send it back for a complete rewrite. The circumstances, the characters, the implausibility, the complete lack of recognition of what structure would be in place to prevent something of this…

Independent of any education that happens during our time in the womb, we are as a specie, born with a blank slate. From that point forward, the opportunity for one to grow, starts with any particular input that comes from those who surround us as we are growing up. Parents,…

Nowadays, it feels as if we are watching the world through an electronic apparatus, trying to experience a semblance of what we took for granted last year. But even as the simulations with a digital audience in baseball try their best to emulate what was commonplace last year, the reality…

When one is mad, it is so much easier to scream. One gets an instant release, an opportunity to watch harsh words strike another, and see their hurt reaction. That option has tremendous short term value. In many cases it actually feels good to let it all out and say…

The range of human emotion is so broad and so vast as to create deep confusion in even the most enlightened of individuals. Sometimes circumstances can be so overwhelming as to shadow the core reality in which one is living. But, after one has lived long enough, one is left…

Words matter. A lot. I love words. The more descriptive or specific the word is, the more I enjoy it. But if anything has been made very clear, it is that the wrong words can be lethal. Devastating. Unfair. And intensely harmful. When we are young, we hurl words at…

John Lewis was born to parents who were sharecroppers in Alabama in 1940. When he was 15 he heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the TV and by age 15 John Lewis had preached his first public sermon. He met Rosa parks when he was 17 and Dr. King…

When I was five years old, cameras did not have auto focus, they did not have light meters, they did not have auto exposure. They shot film and film required learning how to go into a dark room and develop the film and use an enlarger to make prints. It…

In 1984, well into an incredibly successful career, in a moment of stupidity, Tom Petty punched a wall and severely damaged his hand, causing his doctor to assure him he would never play the guitar again. Unwilling to accept this career-destroying prognosis as de facto, he picked up his guitar…

Any artist of magnitude and longevity comes into direct conflict with their previous success as their inner being works to continually develop new material. This quandary is very common in all forms of art whether it be a musician, painter, filmmaker, writer, etc. It becomes almost the proverbial devil and…