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Dear _______,

I apologize for writing this email to you, but I need to express it to someone and you are as good a person as any.  I am a little in my cups at the moment and you can completely ignore this message if you want, I don’t mind in the least.

Over tea the other day, you asked me what kind of movies I want to make and my answer to you was wholly and completely inadequate.  Here is a more accurate answer.  I want to make moves that are simple.  I want to make movies that are complex.  I want to make movies that make people sob, and make them guffaw and make them think.  I want to make movies that are so beautiful they open your mind to new possibilities and movies that are so ugly they hurt your eyes to look at them.  I want to make movies that are logical and those that make absolutely no rational sense.  I want to make Un Chien Andalou and The Grapes of Wrath.

I want to make movies that incite people to violence and movies that incite people to examine and change their lives and the world for the better.  I want to make movies that are wonderfully surreal and movies that are so real you disappear into them and fall out at the end wondering why and where you’ve been.  I want to make science fiction and romance and noir and western movies, silly comedies and political thrillers.  Movies in unparalleled color and in gritty greys and ambers.

I want to make movies that rely on clever, witty dialogue, and movies that rely on complex visual imagery, movies in the tradition of Preston Sturges and in the tradition of Robert Altman.  In the tradition of Walt Disney and of Salvador Dali.  Movies with great poetry and those with jarring syntax.

I want to make movies that raise spiritual awareness and those that simply raise the level of enjoyment in a room.  I want to make spectacular movies and movies confined to a single, simple location, movies that confound and movies that enlighten.  Movies that glorify the human condition and those that examine how it has been debased.

And, I realize, on this New Years Day, January 1st, 2009, if I don’t start now, I will be dead before I make any movie at all.  I have a commitment to co-write the second season of a web series, but once those episodes are completed and approved, I want to make a movie.

Happy New Year.  May yours be filled with glorious creative possibilities.

Geoff