The Makeshift Film School
All heroes of mine (in their own ways). Several large-scale projects concurrently. Seeing the connections between them. Gestation is key.
“Nothing is too much trouble for the busy man. If you ever want anything done, always ask the busy man. The others never have time.”
Word and image.
Ninety-nine per cent of everything is worthless. Suggested definition of a useful life: searching for that one per cent. Paying homage. Didactic revelation. (Also: learning how to ignore the other ninety-nine.) Better to appreciate the masters than create mediocre work. The dust can be invigorating. There are only ten films, ten books, ten pieces of art, ten of anything worth serious study. Most of us won’t ever come close.
“The man of print culture is necessarily a self-educated man.
You can’t acquire book culture by oral means.
You have to struggle alone and in silence against a distracting social environment
which looks askance at your solitary quest.”
Marshall McLuhan
(put down that phone)