When all ELSE FAILS, DRESS beautifully and THROW your FOOD.

The several tribes of INDIANS inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last LETTER, are UNDOUBTEDLY the finest LOOKING, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the CONTINENT.

So MANY directors SAY NOTHING beautifully, and so many others say great and profound THINGS but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a BIT of a race to get down on paper the way I really FEEL about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is HARD. It is TECHNICALLY very hard to show positive manifestations.

I THINK I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' COMICS from Steve Ditko because it COULD be upfront and direct about the PROBLEMS of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

I REALIZE I've had this spirit-animal RELATIONSHIP with sweatpants. In a past life, I probably was a pair of sweatpants. There's SOMETHING beautifully SIMPLE but highly underestimated about them.

My KISS in 'Kalyug' was beautifully SHOT.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak PORTRAIT of a LONELY TOWN in which people are leading lives of SORT of QUIET desperation.

The fact that technology has developed so MUCH GIVES you the LIBERTY to tell the stories, which were DIFFICULT to say EARLIER. It allows you to tell it more convincingly, more elaborately and more beautifully.

I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin DRESSES, and they've all been a DREAM. They're so well made, with the most beautiful craftsmanship. I don't tend to go with things that are ornate - just beautifully made pieces and some CLASSIC JEWELRY. Let the work speak for itself. I love that.

To me, writing is like singing in the most inappropriate PLACE, singing as beautifully as you can on a bus or in a bank, where people least EXPECT it, and TRYING to get them to want to listen.

I WOULD LIKE to thank the 49 actors who APPEAR on SCREEN in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

We have an odd culinary RELATIONSHIP with tinned FOOD. In higher society, RARE and supposedly exquisite goods such as tinned baby octopus, foie gras and caviar come in beautifully crafted, artistically DESIGNED tins.