thatfilmduderyan:

Thank you to @racullen for sharing this. It speaks so many volumes to me.

We’re all swamped. Swamped in the sea of crap. I might come across sometimes as quite a hostile person in some aspects of my job, but I really feel quite hostile towards people blagging their way through things. To be honest, I’m happy appearing hostile towards these types of people because I don’t have any interest in working with them. I’m a strong believer in doing things for a love of the craft and not for any sort of status upgrade. Yet we see many photographers and ‘directors’ who are (in effect) using it as some sort of saturday night chat up line. They can’t be taken seriously. The passion isn’t there in their eyes.

Passion towards a talent is the great love of anyone’s life, and sometimes I forget that. It’s one of, if not the best relationship you’ll ever have. It will also be the most difficult one. You’ll be, tired, upset, stressed, depressed and even broken at some points, but on the other hand you’ll be proud, happy, excited, ecstatic and overwhelmed. It’s the process of taking a thought from your head and making it real. It’s a personal journey. Many will call you names and put you down, but you’ve just gotta roll with the punches.

‎”In the early days of this whole red [camera] rebellion, there were a lot of people that never thought this would happen. That were laughing at us, that were chuckling at us. ‘A waste of time and energy’. “Don’t spend time with these red guys because it’s never going to happen”. And that’s part of the rebellion, refusing to believe all those people that said ‘you can’t do this’.” 

When you hit those low points you need to think of the above quote and just carry on. We’ve got an obligation to make a difference in whatever way we can. Plus, there will be someone, somewhere, at some point that will grab your arm and lift you back up. You can count on that. The boat’s big and we’re all in it.

Enjoy this film. Tell your friends.