Life in general, is absurd, and all of this conformity is beyond absurd.....
No longer do people recognize and encourage individuality.
No longer do people teach children to do what they think is right, instead of what everybody else thinks is the right thing to do.
We're all bred to conform to everything we're told right when we arrive in this world.
Grow up, go to school, get great grades, go to college, get a normal job, get married, have children, and then die.
The FDA controls everything we eat, and is even in the process of passing an act that will allow genetically modified salmon mixed in with the other salmon without labeling it.
The media tells us bullshit everyday that people listen to and lives their lives by.
They spend more time talking about celebrities lives than their own challenges.
Americans spend their lives acting as if the glorious T.V. is the Bible.
People spend the entire day glued to their cellphones and in their own little worlds.
Instead of being taught morals and character, kids are now taught to look out for only themselves and to trust nobody.
For example, if you choose not to go to college in this society, you are cursed upon (at least I was). People don't understand that while a degree might have uses, It's no guarantee to getting a job in todays economy. Some friends of mine have gone and earned a degree, gotten a masters, and then went on to get another degree. A degree can be a great thing in certain fields, but not in film. I had a distant Aunt tell me that I'm stupid and nothing if I don't get one. Who the hell does she think she is to tell me I'm stupid and nothing?
Besides, what the heck would a degree in film earn me? It's the reason I dropped out of college.
I'm not going to sit there and waste my time taking seven math courses in two years and taking dozens of classes I don't want to just since some counselor tells me I have to do it. Just because society tells me I have to do it. If I want to be a writer, I'll write instead.
I wrote a play for my english teacher sophomore year of college that we performed in front of a dozen high schools, and I still have to sit through two more english classes?
Besides, film teachers are usually those who've failed in the profession they are teaching in. Why would I waste a few years of my life listening to someone who failed as an artist try to tell me how to be an artist?
You can't teach art. And people don't recognize that anymore. Did Picasso, Andrei Rublev, and Van Gogh attend a painting school and get a masters degree in painting? Did Fyodor Dostoyevsky get a degree in creative writing? Did Maria Callas get a degree in singing? NO....
Did Federico Fellini, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Bunuel, and Fritz Lang get degrees in Film?
OR did they all take everything they experienced, everything other people experienced, and everything they felt while living and mix it into their own films?
You either are an artist, or you aren't.
And telling someone they must have a degree to be an artist is absurd.
So why shouldn't I try to find out if I am one while I'm young?
To be an great artist, I believe you have to suffer greatly.....
And suffer I must.
So one day the world can see the beauty, sadness, truth, and absurdity of my art.
