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A Word to the Film Students
As some of you might know, I'm currently in film school. Meaning I'm basically paying money to learn how to be a starving artist in some way shape or form (seeing as a lot of my attention goes to writing and general creative processes). And, yes, a film school is an art school, and this is obvious in the type of people who are around me, at pretty much all times. I love my friends, and I generally like my colleagues, but you know what? I need to say some stuff.
Guess what? I happen to actually really like musicals. I don't care if they were the scrounge of the studio era, it's not like that anymore, and they're really enjoyable to me.
I also happened to like Transformers. Yeah. It anally raped my childhood with the lack of following a story line and the... sub standard plot, but you know what? It was giant robots battling and destroying things! I went in expecting nothing else, and wasn't disapointed.
For the most part, I know nothing of other directors. I know nothing of actors or writers. I don't think that makes me any less than what I already am. I know what I'm doing. I don't think I need to be up to date on what everyone else is, too.
Harmony Korine, surprisingly, is NOT the only film maker who's done anything worth watching in the last FIFTY YEARS. In fact, I think his stuff is kind of sh*t.
David Lynch. ... Eraserhead was cool. But you know, I don't want to watch his stuff EVERY DAY. I don't enjoy a daily mind f*ck.
For the most part, certain people I know need to pull their heads out of their asses. You are not the next big thing. I don't care how odd you play yourself off to be. That tends to be a cover up for a very bland personality. Or... a complete lack of personality.
I don't really care what you think of my work, because if you're petty enough to try and pick apart my story, chances are, I can do the exact same thing back to you.
Call me mainstream if you'd like. I wouldn't deny it. I only want to make things to entertain people. I want to make people smile, and laugh, and think. I want to showcase the talents of the people I'm working with, and utilize them in any way I possibly can. I'm a story teller, people. And I just want to tell stories.
So stop being assholes. It only makes the people around you not want to work with you.
