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Watercolor by Nicholas Ray illustrating scene from WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN in multiple image“I would like to help create a new concept of film as a living, continuously breathing thing, so you see the molecules of thought and emotion and experience working all the time, and in a kind of wonderful disorder that permits the audience to participate in creating its own order and drawing their own conclusions from what they experience ...

“I long for the day when there’s a filmmaker in every family, when communication is not limited to the word or the page, when each kid can have a crack at giving full expression to something of himself. How much richer the neighborhood would be. We should be surrounded with the materials that creative activity calls for. Imagine a society in which some neighbors build a common kiln for their ceramics; others build looms for handweaving and recapture the pure relationship with materials that the American Indians had; others build a daycare center; and others, a chamber orchestra. What a city that could be. It could be, if some of us set the foundations ...”
—Nicholas Ray
Watercolor by Nicholas Ray illustrating scene from WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN in multiple image

We need your help to support the realization of Ray’s vision.
Please contribute to the Nicholas Ray Foundation.
As we are a 501-(c)-3 not-for-profit corporation, your contributions are tax deductible.
Certain contributions entitle you to a thank-you gift:

  • $500 - color Xerox (8.5 x 11) of Nicholas Ray’s watercolor
  • $1000 - I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies, by Nicholas Ray, edited by Susan Ray
  • $2500 - full-sized poster for We Can’t Go Home Again
  • $5000 or more - full-sized, limited edition (250 copies) poster of Nicholas Ray’s watercolor sketch of a scene from We Can’t Go Home Again
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Checks may be made out and sent to the following address:
 Nicholas Ray Foundation, PO Box 888, Saugerties, NY 12477