pushedandfiled:
…Unless you can feel that a hero is as fucked up as you are, that you would make the same mistakes that he would make, you can have no satisfaction when he does commit a heroic act. Because then you can say, “Hell I could have done that too!” And that’s the obligation of the filmmaker, of the theater worker: to give a heightened sense of experience to the people who pay to come to see his work.
- Nicholas Ray
bbook:
Because my grandparents on my mother’s side lived in Brooklyn, I would go to New York City and I would see these things. And it scared the hell out of me. In the subway I remember a wind from the approaching train, then a smell and sound. I could taste the horror every time I went to New York.
My grandfather owned an apartment building in Brooklyn with no kitchens. A man was cooking an egg on an iron—that really worried me. And every night he unscrewed his car aerial so gangs wouldn’t break it off. I could just feel fear in the air. It was great fuel for future fires.
aakme:
Rob Zombie on the set of The Devil’s Rejects.
Chris Weitz, Demián Bichir (right), and José Julián (left) on the set of A Better Life.
