Making proces war for a kiss
Meeting the master
Being a writer and a director and not working for a studio means
26 September 2004
Deadline and action
It is very silent on my weblog but that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. A LOT is
28 May 2004
16 novels and a documentary
While I’m closing myself off to work on my Bollywood script I got a nice surprise. Scheltema (a huge bookstore in Amsterdam) presented today a list with the best 16 novels of 2003. And my book ‘De kus van de weduwe’ is one of them. One of the 3 Dutch books!!
10 December 2003
The world is in my hands
My African film project, ‘The Bird Can’t Fly’, has again a delay. It is hard to except but I learned by now that making a film on this scale is a time consuming job.
16 October 2003
Artistic man with money
After some lousy weeks, in which I was fighting a nasty microbe I got in India, I’m back on my feet. Immediately my producer and I had
15 October 2003
An angel in my mailbox
Working on an international film script is like throwing yourself into a hell. As long as you’re alone with
6 October 2003
Foreigner in my own city
It is a cultural shock being back after six weeks of Bombay. Not because Amsterdam (the city where I live) is perhaps cleaner or very differently organised. No it is the extreme patronizing attitude of the local authorities.
17 September 2003
Waiting for several things
Last week my publisher wrote me that the ECI (Dutch book club) wanted 2000 copies of my book. But it was
7 September 2003
The actor and the god
Life is full of coincidences. Last night I met an old friend of mine, Makrand Deshpende, who is an actor/writer/director here in Bombay. As you know
5 September 2003