September 2010
“I think there are three steps to writing a script. First, you have to have a theme, something you want to say. It doesn’t have to be a particularly great thing, but you have to have something that’s bothering you. In the case of Taxi Driver, the theme was loneliness. Then you find a metaphor for that theme, one that expresses it. In Taxi Driver, that was the cabbie, the perfect expression of urban loneliness. Then you have to find a plot, which is the easiest part of the process. All plots have been done; they’re fairly easy, you just work through all the permutations until the plot accurately reflects the theme and the metaphor. You push the theme through the metaphor and you should come out with the plot.”
—Paul Schrader (I love that substitution for theme: something that’s bothering you)
Fun →
erkie.github.com
Shoot stuff.
This is great for taking out people’s avatars on the Tumblr Dashboard. And stuff.
You need this in your life.
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Lazarus Long, Robert A. Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love.
Play
“Is it just me or is the only thing more lame than the poor segway guy offing himself with his own product, the look on people’s faces when they hear about it - that dumb half smile as they wrack their unfunny boring brains for some joke that NO ONE HAD THOUGHT OF YET.”
— Wise Person (via slippy)
Play
