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Today: Wes Anderson on Fresh Air: “I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting. That’s just sort of my way.”
Like Frank sang, do it your way.
Posted on May 29, 2012 via NPR Fresh Air with 254 notes
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Playgrounds That Match Kids' Imaginations
As I throw out my back, digging out sod and the requisite 7-9 inches for accident-softening mulch, and making room for a pre-made (and still, to be fair, quite glorious for my kids) swing set, I am humbled by these playgrounds. I dreamt about these sorts of hyper-imaginative, surreal, imaginative places when I was a kid. And somebody had the idea (and follow through and know how) to make them happen. Inspiring.
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It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if you’re very ill, it gets in the way. … But one of the theories now is that the terrible swings of the mental illness – of bipolar depression – you get these manic highs, these euphorias, where the ideas just pour out of you. And you need to write them down. That’s followed by this dismal low period when maybe you’re a better editor. Maybe it’s easier for you to focus and refine those epiphanies into a perfect form. … The thinking is maybe the correlation exists because the swings of mental illness echo the natural swings of the creative process.
Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair) Not entirely sure why, but I really like the bit about being a better editor when you’re in the lowlands.(via nprfreshair)
Posted on March 21, 2012 via NPR Fresh Air with 1,148 notes
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A page from Coppola’s notes for The Godfather.
Favorite part, easily: “MIST OF BLOOD”.
from SlashFilm.
Posted on March 19, 2012 via love all this with 70 notes
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Best thing I’ve seen this week. A 7-year old makes a Rube Goldberg machine. If his ingenuity doesn’t get you, his enthusiasm will.
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
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So often that process is veiled and I understand why, because it’s mystical, it can’t be reduced to a formula, you feel somehow that to talk about it is undignified, kiss-and-tell. But I think not talking about it leads to this weird myth that songs should write themselves, that unless they tumble out in a rush, fully formed, they’re not truly inspired. Which has not been my experience at all. For me the stuff that tumbles out in a rush is usually journal-type ego drivel and it’s the songs I really give a long incubation to that feel more lean and true.
The incredible Anais Mitchell on writing in American Songwriter magazine. Her new album “Young Man In America” is out today, which promises to be a really good follow-up to the ambitious “Hadestown.” -
Henry Miller’s commandments for writing. Pretty rad. I kind of disagree with #1, but that’s probably because I’m generally working in a shorter format (songs, essays, etc) than Miller was.
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, film, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake up early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.
Ray Bradbury (via msbookish)(via troubadouronefour)
Posted on January 31, 2012 via Ms. Bookish with 15 notes
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I’ve always thought that writing isn’t really that hard. It’s having a good idea that’s hard.
Lyle Lovett (Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/lyle-lovett-quotes-0212#ixzz1kKL7Arfs)
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