"Every time I finish a project, my MS relapses. These are not metaphors. They are the terms of the deal I did not agree to but am bound by nonetheless. Multiple Sclerosis does not negotiate. It does not care about art, or deadlines, or the fact that you have finally found the right piece of music for the opening credits. It comes when it comes, and it takes what it wants. Who would want to make a movie under these conditions? The answer is always the same. Because there is no other way. My overwhelming desire to tell cinematic stories is the only way I can keep pace with my body's relentless and ever increasing demands upon me. That sentence might sound like bravado, or worse, like martyrdom. It is neither. It is arithmetic. MS takes. Filmmaking gives. The equation is not balanced, it never has been, but it is the only equation I have."
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