The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Interpretation
Film creation allows for a structured and lasting artistic expression.
Michel Gondry's quote emphasizes the methodical nature of filmmaking, likening it to building something tangible and enduring. Each aspect of the film is constructed meticulously, piece by piece, giving filmmakers the power to create lasting works of art that resonate beyond their initial presentation.
In practice
This quote could be used in a film class to inspire students about the process of filmmaking.
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay hidden within me like the hard kernel within an old brittle husk.
True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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