Two kinds of carrots
Oh, hi friends!
There are carrots you chase because they’re dangling in front of you.
These are the opportunities that cross your desk and you say, “Oh. That could be fun? Maybe?”
And then there are the carrots you actually want.
These are the opportunities you seek out. They excite you. They feel less like work than a path forward.
These carrots taste like dessert.
“I think probably, in the back of my mind, there was always this sense that I wanted to do something as big as those films I’d seen when I was a kid, but it certainly wasn’t a conscious aspiration. When I was going around the festival circuit with Following, very often people would refer to my film as ‘a calling card film,’ and I found that very frustrating. My comment at the time was, ‘If you want to make a calling card, you go to Kinkos. You don’t spend three years of your life putting a film together.’
The act of making that film was ‘filmmaking,’ to me, and it was as valid and still is as valid as everything I do today. And I try and encourage young people starting out to really value the experience they’re going through on the smallest scale of production because it’s filmmaking. If you want to be a filmmaker, make a film and enjoy it; don’t be thinking about what’s the next thing, the thing after that.”
What wonderful advice from the director Christopher Nolan to make the very best thing you can make at the time. (h/t Selina Zhong)
Is it a cotton ball? A pile of snow? A kernel of popcorn? This Instagram @round.boys gives me so much delight. Sometimes you just need to look at a little fluff with marble eyes. (It’s a cat. It’s actually a cat!) (h/t Matt Bemer)
PS — Does anyone in Brooklyn need a roommate?
My wonderful friend Marialena is looking for an apartment with an open bedroom. Details: September 1 move-in, must be in Brooklyn, $1,000 a month max, and you have to be OK with a sweet orange cat coming along for the ride! Reach out to her at maria.difabbio@gmail.com if you know a great place. Apartment karma is real!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara