He likes to walk long distances – maybe he’ll walk this way! Thanks for the link!

Don´t invite him to dinner, start walking to New Jersey 😉

http://slought.org/content/11393/

So funny! And good. And smart.

Great quote! And as usual there’s a seeming contradiction in what he says, because he himself is extremely educated, thoughtful and well-spoken, and when I go see other people’s films I often wish the filmmaker had more education or critical thinking ability. He’s an autodidact and very curious, and no doubt he did get his education on the road, but I think his was an unusually observant school of life. I just hope lots of action-oriented, adventurous filmmakers who never went to school don’t read this quote and use it as an excuse to think they’ve already received their education on the road and end up producing lots of manly, macho films full of physicality! I contrast this with the other quote above: ” To me, adventure is a concept that applies only to those men and women of earlier historical times, like the medieval knights who traveled into the unknown. The concept has degenerated constantly since then… I absolutely loathe adventurers, and I particularly hate this old pseudo-adventurism where the mountain climb becomes about confronting the extremes of humanity.” So fantastic. I wish he’d come over for dinner.

“And, vitally, aspiring filmmakers have to be taught that sometimes the only way of overcoming problems involves real physicality. Many great filmmakers have been astonishingly physical, athletic people. A much higher percentage than writers or musicians. Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometres. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.”