Follow - Write - Create

One Min Read

7 Views

My job as an author – at least the way I think of it – is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Follow Me Written By

Shane Carruth

Other Quote

Previous

I’m interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I’m very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it’s not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic.

Next

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Next

June 5, 2024

We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Previous

June 5, 2024

I’m interested in making something that moves quickly, that hopefully is compelling minute-by-minute but really packed densely with exploration. I’m very interested in how re-visitable we can make films. If we can get them closer to a music album, then it’s not such an arduous process to revisit, and exploration can be a bit more cryptic.

No Comment! Be the first one.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Related Items

I suspect that one of capitalism’s crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

Zygmunt Bauman

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a ‘new and improved’ form – and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied ‘host organisms’ into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.

Zygmunt Bauman

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job – that was through Mike Figgis.

Zuleikha Robinson

Lone Gunmen’ was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I’m brilliant and don’t have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

Zuleikha Robinson