Self Potrait
Hi. I'm Brad Maier. This is What I Read, Think, and Do.
Asked by a friend why he did it, Mr Allen said: ‘I found myself grasping for some sort of rationalization that would make me seem less crazy.
She said ‘no, why did you really build it?’
For the first time in my life, I was forced to face the truth about it. I said ‘I guess… I just wanted to build something cool’.
…but walking as a cultural activity, as a pleasure, as travel, as a way of getting around, is fading, and with it goes an ancient and profound relationship between body, world, and imagination.
Put yourself out there and give yourself permission to suck. That’s not to say you should try to suck, but you have to give yourself permission to allow for the possibility of sucking. Without sucking, you’re never going to find your boundaries, and you’ll never push through those boundaries. That’s all it is. Constantly bumping into walls you do not think you can climb and then climbing until you get over them. There’s no mystery to it, no magic. It’s about dedication and constantly trying to improve.
I don’t care if we’ve worked 18 hours and it’s 5:30 in the morning and we have 45 minutes before the sun is going to come up and we’ve got to get this thing. I am going to make sure that we do everything we can to get it right. Because eventually the shoot is going to be over and we’re just going to have what we have, and I’m going to have to live with it for the rest of my life. That’s probably something that should be obvious, but it wasn’t to me then. It’s sort of revealed itself to me.
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.
JK Rowling
It’s important to let ideas blossom without too much judging or interference. The beauty of children is their ability to look at the world openly, without being bound by the intellect.
Your intellect can hold back so many wonderful, fantastic things. Without logic or reason, there’s always something else, something unseen. The world is infinite rather than finite.
David Lynch
So, when I talk, what it amounts to is that I’m explaining my work, and I don’t believe a man should explain what he does. I believe he should do it and not explain it. Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it…
…You should never explain the philosophy behind anything either. The philosophy behind it isn’t important. The question is, if your work is weak and lacking so that it needs explanation, it isn’t enough, it isn’t clear enough.
Shel Silverstein - The Aardvark
