"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment."

-Eckhart Tolle, from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

What I Tell Everyone Is My Favorite Movie

• Life is Beautiful (La vita é bella)

Other Movies that Blew My Mind

• Fight Club
• Oceans Eleven (there's a story behind this one)
• Memento
• Gummo
• George Washington

Movies that Make Me Want to Make Movies

• Little Miss Sunshine
• Sunshine Cleaning
• Blood Diamond (Movies have the power, on the smallest level, to change opinions and, on a bigger scale, change the direction of people's lives)

Movies I Love to Love

• Make a quality, festival-worthy short film
• Apply for as many post-graduation opportunities as possible
• Make a 4.0
• Finish seven paintings (one for my room, a three-panel spread for my bathroom, and a three-panel spread for my living room)
• Keep in better touch with far-away friends
• Write creatively (outside blogging) at least once a week
• Attend the Austin Film Festival
• Enrich my friendships here in Norman
• Visit my grandparents in Tulsa