Truth is… we are all cray-cray... and delulu too.

Someone has to say it!

oh little bird, why did you come inside?

I’ve been in the SC Film Biz for four decades now. And I’ve seen a lot. And know the struggle. It never lets up.

And am very thankful for all the opportunity and good fortune I’ve enjoyed. I study the system… relentlessly. And although I know I am damn good at what I do, I also recognize I definitely have reaped the benefits of my privilege. It’s not just my work that got me here, as much as I wish it was so. I try to balance it out as best I can, knowing I can still do better in understanding in where we all stand and what can be done.

I love the idea that if we could just sort a few things out, this machine could work something close to wonderful. I can’t let go of that, or rather: won’t; but I know it is just a fantasy.

I’ve long harbored a deep love of chaos, and that’s probably why I’ve lasted in this business for as long as I have. To me, that chaos represents truth. Human beings are chaos incarnate. There is no true management of us as we refuse to be managed. Sure, the system makes most of us compliant and submissive, but fortunately there is a stronger power that lives within many of us too, and that is the FYIWDWYTM urge-to-rebellion.

Yes, yes, yes. I also recognize we are generally prone to confirmation bias; to the hammer everything looks like the nail – you know how much I love that phrase by now, right? So what if we see only see what we want to see? Just because we see it, doesn’t mean it isn’t truly there. It could just be our delulu.

You see how interesting this situation is? It is sort of a Push-You-Pull-Me. We may fall in line, but we are also prone to jump the tracks, even when we remain blind to all but our own perspective. One could make a movie with that theme! And I for one will find it fascinating.

Wondering where I am going with this post, bon chance?

I want you to make better movies. You know that, right? I am not saying I don’t like what you are putting out or don’t believe in what you are doing, but I think we can all Kobayashi it a bit more than we currently are. There is a ceiling we can all break through.

Yeah, this again is about lifting the good into the great. And to be totally clear, I too want to make better movies – as pleased as I am with most of what I’ve been able to do so far, I want the next round to be better still.

The point I am getting to is multi-faceted. It is a recognition, bundled with a tactic, and then dressed with a hopeful windfall. Part one is probably obvious to anyone that has been in the SC film biz for a decade or longer: everyone is nuts!

No offense, but I have yet to meet a soul who isn’t. One way or the other, they we are neurotic, obsessive, repressed, transgressive, delusional, grandiose, and/or outright sociopathic. And I love them us so!

If that’s the recognition, what’s the tactic?