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Come to think of why I blog, and why I don't care for the quantity of people reading (rather than the quality), it's very simple: I write for myself. I've only realized this after watching an interview with a brazilian actor and director called Selton Mello.
He was an actor for television, and made big bucks, but now he's more of a cinema guy. Needless to say that the movies that make it big around here are Hollywood movies, so brazilian films are just as underground in Brazil as it is in the rest of the world. And you have to acknowledge that his career choices might not be the usual choices, but they sure show a nice way to live a good life (outside the spotlight).
So the interviewer asked him about a quote, supposedly from some big shot art director (I'm sorry, but I don't remember the name). The quote stated that people don't make movies for the public, but for themselves. As simples as this.
Selton Mello agreed to the quote, and I agree to Selton Mello: I do this for myself. And then he went and said that being an actor and a director is about self-knowledge, and discovering himself. I profoundly disagree, because I'm positive that none of the things I write existed beforehand, and I wasn't the person who wrote them.
I think I wrote what I wrote to become what I've become. It isn't about self-knowledge, but about self-construction.
He was an actor for television, and made big bucks, but now he's more of a cinema guy. Needless to say that the movies that make it big around here are Hollywood movies, so brazilian films are just as underground in Brazil as it is in the rest of the world. And you have to acknowledge that his career choices might not be the usual choices, but they sure show a nice way to live a good life (outside the spotlight).
So the interviewer asked him about a quote, supposedly from some big shot art director (I'm sorry, but I don't remember the name). The quote stated that people don't make movies for the public, but for themselves. As simples as this.
Selton Mello agreed to the quote, and I agree to Selton Mello: I do this for myself. And then he went and said that being an actor and a director is about self-knowledge, and discovering himself. I profoundly disagree, because I'm positive that none of the things I write existed beforehand, and I wasn't the person who wrote them.
I think I wrote what I wrote to become what I've become. It isn't about self-knowledge, but about self-construction.
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