A Few of My Favorite Things

{Title: My Neighbor Totoro/Director: Hayao Miyazaki}

{Title: Breakfast at Tiffany's/Director: Blake Edwards}

{Title: The Fifth Element/Director: Luc Besson}

I have always been interested in anything that could take me to new places and create new & unique ideas.  I started watching T.V. and reading at an early age.  I was raised by parents, who worked well into the night, most nights, all the time.  So in a sense the only baby-sitter I had in the evenings was the television or if it was during school period, a good book borrowed from the school library.  Currently my brother and I have a combined DVD collection of well over the 100's, including all genres and languages. 

When asked what my favorite movie is, I always resist answering.  I have many "favorite" movies, they range from Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Neighbor Totoro, and to The Fifth Element.  I also like to watch Foreign films and read subtitles.  The only time I am hesitant in watching a film if it is an adaptation from a book that I have read and liked.  Like the adaptation Water for Elephants or The Time Teller’s Wife.  The only reason is that the book created an image in my head and the image and story is my interpretation and when watching a mediocre adaptation of the movie, it destroys the story created in my head and the book is never the same again.