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A Third Radio Interview on Some (More) Great Spiritual Films
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Joseph Susanka
The FFFEYIBA Project—1994
“I've stood on the shoulders of life and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own. I've flown too high on borrowed…
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Joseph Susanka
The FFFEYIBA Project—1993
Steven Spielberg: “I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.”
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Joseph Susanka

May 2025

I Just Did Another Radio Interview About Movies Over At Ave Maria Radio
...which is great, because I can’t seem to find the time to write about them any more. Don’t worry, though; I'll return to the FFFEYIBA Project soon. I…
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A Radio Interview My Friend (Generously, Though, Perhaps, Foolishly) Invited Me To Do
“The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.”
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Joseph Susanka
An Apology, A Pair of Quotes, and a Suggestion
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” — Publilius Syrus
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Joseph Susanka

April 2025

March 2025

The FFFEYIBA Project—1989
ELSA: “Don’t look at me like that. We both wanted the Grail. I would have done anything to get it. You would have done the same.” INDY: “I’m sorry you…
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The FFFEYIBA Project—1988
“It’s an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which…
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Joseph Susanka
The FFFEYIBA Project—1987
“This woman...has the ability to transform a dinner into a kind of love affair, a love affair that makes no distinction between the bodily appetite and…
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