filmmaker reblogs

you are a celebrity singing a corny song by a racist abuser in your 40 room mansion. i am an hourly wage worker struggling to pay rent. we are not the same.

Someone: So what is your novel? Middle grade? YA? Adult? NA?

Me:

“What’s your genre?”

GROSS SELF-INDULGENCE

The Lighthouse (2019) dir. Robert Eggers

Go, before it goes dark!

SPIRITED AWAY 2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

New rule for Hollywood directors: if you’re using a traditional folk song as part of your film’s soundtrack, you’re not allowed to skip the verses where it gets political. Sorry – your movie is about killing the English now!

I have been informed that I am racist against the English.

Good for you!

nearly 2 decades since this film released and still one of the most iconic scenes from the series  

“If I’m going to sell my heroine into marriage for money, I might as well get some of it.”

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

Interview with the Vampire  1994 • dir. Neil Jordan

—Hayao Miyazaki

If I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

          -Hayao Miyazaki (x)

Hayao Miyazaki, (“Ponyo is Here.” 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki. NHK, February 24, 2019)

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them. It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out.

PARASITE (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)