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“I’ve never done yoga, but I trained as a dancer years ago. None of these things felt right, none of them felt right for Francis. I felt like, he’s not doing something because he wants to exercise his body; he’s trying to empower himself. He’s also struggling inside with his own physicality. He wants to get out of his own skin.” (x) (x)
I spend half of the series naked.
If you go to England and you see these modern buildings next to the British Museum, or you go and see the sights in Chicago, and you see this juxtaposition of different aesthetics… that’s one of the ways we hit on to infuse the entire film with the concept of time. You have to see old and new right smack next to each other, and then you feel time. We also did that with these elemental juxtapositions of the very old and the very new, the distant history next to the distant future, with all of these signs that these ancient cultures are signs of how these powerful beings have reached down and steered us.
We wanted Mila Kunis’s character, Jupiter, to be the most complex in the movie. We didn’t want another action movie where the woman ends up being just an armpiece for the man. We wanted to make the man into her armpiece! “The Wizard of Oz” was a big reference. I thought, How great it is that Dorothy has Toto, he’s always at her side, defending her? We wanted Jupiter to have a protector like Toto.’
How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended with you feeling bitter, resenting them for making you feel like your pain doesn’t have any substance after all?
Like when you’ve split up with someone, and you try to communicate the way you feel, because you need to say the words, need to feel that somebody understands just how pissed off and frightened you feel. The problem is, they never do. “Plenty more fish in the sea,” they’ll say, or “You’re better off without them,” or “Do you want some of these potato chips?” They never really understand, because they haven’t been there, every day, every hour. They don’t know the way things have been, the way that it’s made you, the way it has structured your world. They’ll never realise that someone who makes you feel bad may be the person you need most in the world. They don’t understand the history, the background, don’t know the pillars of memory that hold you up. Ultimately, they don’t know you well enough, and they never can. Everyone’s alone in their world, because everybody’s life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live.
Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
I’ve often thought about the old man, about how chance words can touch people’s lives in ways that are impossible to predict. Bend the world, he said, don’t accept having less than you want and blow a hole in anything that blocks your way. Armed with that notion, many people could have gone on to carve themselves a life that culminated in something approaching peace. It was good advice, and well meant. I was just the wrong person to give it to.
Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry (via coooode)
When I was little, I wanted to be a paleontologist, astronaut android.
And then when I got a bit older, I realised that the astronaut part was unlikely to work out, that I’d lost my obsession with dinosaurs and it was highly improbable that I would become an android.
So, I decided, in the absence of actually having any idea what I wanted to do with my life, that I wanted to be content.
And that’s pretty much it.
My mum sometimes tells me that I’m too content and I suppose I do have a startling lack of ambition, but being super-ambitious isn’t for everyone. I have my cousin to be the ambitious, driven version of me – so far it’s working out okay.
No; I wd not condescend to be the minion of a princess; and not all the gold of Ophir shd ever lead me to the altar. Far different are the qualities which I require in the sweet participator of my existence. My nature demands that my life shall be perpetual love.
We do better in the big cities. In Europe, we definitely got big in England first, and I don’t know why. We’re not that handsome.
