Ecstatic Absurdity: It's The Confrontation

It's So Much Easier To Make A Movie About Someone Who Is So Likeable That You Just Want To Get Out Of The Way.

There Is Something About The Photographs That Is Endlessly Disturbing. The Fact That We Like To Think Of Them As Torture Actually Hides What Is Really Deeply Offensive About Them.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

Everything Is A Reenactment. We Are Reenacting The World In The Mind. The World Is Not Inside There. It Does Not Reside In The Gray Matter Of The Brain.