The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
I definitely find the technical aspects of post-production generally quite overwhelming.
Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.
I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.
I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.
It is vitally important that you prioritize your film and use your time and energy and resources to make it happen. Stop waiting for things to fall into place. Start doing things right now to make it happen.
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be true. " He's not saying, "I'm trying to lie to you. " But he's kind of saying that you can never say what something really is.
my mother. . . took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.
For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
Architecture is the work of nations