#luaim

“After two thousand years of Christianity it’s hard to imagine divinity apart from unity, eternity, singularity, commandment; it’s hard to see why the difference between Zeus and any other adulterous husband isn’t merely a matter of degree. But the Greeks saw an absolute difference between mortals and gods, a difference which might be formulated this way: mortals are partial and complex, gods are complete and simple. A god’s desires are implacable and brook no appeal, while a human’s are changeable and often disappointed; a god’s actions always go to the absolute limit and can’t be undone, while a human’s are always in a certain sense incomplete, half-assed. Zeus ravishes Leda, who bears Helen the all-too-beautiful, and Troy falls, and almost everyone touched by Helen dies a bad death; the question “what if Zeus hadn’t ravished Leda?” is not one that can be asked of a god. What gods do is not different from what they are. They know little hesitation and less regret. According to Euripides, they are ‘forbidden’ to cry.”

“MOVIES ARE AN authoritarian medium. They vulnerabilize you and then dominate you. Part of the magic of going to a movie is surrendering to it, letting it dominate you. The sitting in the dark, the looking up, the tranced distance from the screen, the being able to see the people on the screen without being seen by the people on the screen, the people on the screen being so much bigger than you: prettier than you, more compelling than you, etc. 

Sarachan: What would you say to those who feel discouraged from making their own films? Why do you think many people feel they need permission to create? Cummings: That is the biggest killer of artwork. I always say never wait for permission, you’ll never get it. What happens is people, especially in this industry, will discourage you from something not because they don’t think you can do it or don’t think it would be good but because if you can do it by yourself, you are now their competition and beforehand you were there subordinate. If you can just do it and follow in our very easy steps, you can do it. The best advice I can give somebody is that their movie will be good if when they try to make it, they get their friends and family together. I had great role models, Trey Schults made this movie Krisha in his backyard with his family, and it’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen. To me, it started this backyard moviemaking renaissance that we are in right now. If I hadn’t seen Trey directing a movie in flip-flops and a bathrobe, I mean I thought I certainly couldn’t be Steven Spielberg, but I can definitely be that guy.

"A wound gives off its own light / surgeons say. / If all the lamps in the house were turned out / you could dress this wound / by what shines from it." (Anne Carson) also, i think about there is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in from that leonard cohen song