Recategorizing The Bad And Negative

Into something we use and ultimately LOVE

always a long walk and where does it actually get us?

I thought you might need a little break from the “All Films Are Political” series. We will return to it to next post though, so don’t don’t despair.

How do we get things done? How do we improve things?  What spurs us to take action? I suspect you know the formula for change, right? It’s in my Cinema’s Secret Formula column. ICYMI “Until the pain of the present exceeds our fear of the future, we won’t take action.” That’s the answer, friend.

One of my longtime collaborators rightly typecast me early on as always needing to have something to fight against. I find it very motivating to push against the usual or status quo.  Always have. Perhaps because I was the only long-haired boy in my grade school. You need to develop conviction and tenacity if you are going to stand out in the crowd. And fortunately for me and for that tendency, there is always a great deal to object to, both in the cinema industry, and in life in general. The truth is I just don’t like it — any of it —at least not the overall or big picture. But it certainly helps me get things done.

And yet despite this total frustration with the way things are, comparatively speaking I would call myself a pretty happy person.  How does that make sense? To be unhappy with the state of the world, community and industry, and yet to be happy in the moment and present? And then, how does that cocktail become an accelerator for accomplishment. Is it an anomaly? Or law of nature?

Grab a seat and get some coffee. Imagonnatryinsplainitagen.