Persona38A on Nostr: “I do not know what the wound is. I do know that it is old. I do know that it is a ...
“I do not know what the wound is.
I do know that it is old.
I do know that it is a hole in my being.
I do know it is tender.
I do believe that it is unknowable, or at least inarticulable.
I do believe you have a wound too.
I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone.
I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected.
It is the thing that is tap-danced over five shows a day.
It is the thing that won’t be interesting to other people if revealed.
It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic.
It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible.
It is your secret even from yourself.
But it is the thing that wants to live!
It is the thing from which your art, your painting, your dance, your composition, your philosophical treatise, your screenplay is born.
If you don’t acknowledge this, you will come up here (on the stage) when it is your time, and you will give your speech, and you will talk about the business of screenwriting.
You will say that, as a screenwriter, you are a cog in a business machine.
You will say it is not an art form.
You will say, “Here, this is what a screenplay looks like.”
You will discuss character arcs, how to make likeable characters.
You will talk about box office.
This is what you will do.
This is who you will be.
And after you’re done, I will feel lonely and empty and hopeless.”
Charlie Kaufman | BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs&t=1883s
I do know that it is old.
I do know that it is a hole in my being.
I do know it is tender.
I do believe that it is unknowable, or at least inarticulable.
I do believe you have a wound too.
I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone.
I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected.
It is the thing that is tap-danced over five shows a day.
It is the thing that won’t be interesting to other people if revealed.
It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic.
It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible.
It is your secret even from yourself.
But it is the thing that wants to live!
It is the thing from which your art, your painting, your dance, your composition, your philosophical treatise, your screenplay is born.
If you don’t acknowledge this, you will come up here (on the stage) when it is your time, and you will give your speech, and you will talk about the business of screenwriting.
You will say that, as a screenwriter, you are a cog in a business machine.
You will say it is not an art form.
You will say, “Here, this is what a screenplay looks like.”
You will discuss character arcs, how to make likeable characters.
You will talk about box office.
This is what you will do.
This is who you will be.
And after you’re done, I will feel lonely and empty and hopeless.”
Charlie Kaufman | BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs&t=1883s