Jack Palance Monte Walsh set Old Tucson Arizona 1969 #3 Metal Print

"One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!"

"I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three."

"I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own."

"The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed." - Jack Palance, 1919-2008

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...