ships of ilium.

binary star.

pynchon. stoppard. nabokov.

eternal sunshine.

Vladimir.

...yes.

this is my longer story

it was always about storytelling.

i came to film through writing.

— through storytelling, yes.

nothing can be done.

eternal sunshine's spotted mind.

i studied literature at usf, but what i was really studying was how stories move people. what makes a sentence land; what makes a scene earn its emotion. when i picked up a camera it felt like the same problem in a different language.

stories transform.

— in a different language.

— an unknown language.

binary star.

99th star.

the work that matters to me is work that is honest and true.

unimagined heaven —

— the work is never done.

a long silence.

...yes.

whether i'm directing a commercial or cutting a documentary i'm asking the same question: what is this piece actually about. i've spent a lot of time with writers like nabokov and dostoyevsky, filmmakers like paul thomas anderson, because they understood that the surface of a story and its real subject are almost never the same thing.

the cut works like silence.

dostoyevsky knew.

almost never.

— almost.

pynchon. stoppard. nabokov.

— so we should stop talking.

outside of film i'm writing a novel and a screenplay, learning italian, and thinking constantly about stories.

love is recursive.

ships of ilium.

— he builds things so they won't be finished.

i would lie to him.

we're waiting.

we're all just trying to make something that stays.

something to imbue.

nothing to be done.

he does not move.

there's still something to distill.

— why not?

we can't stop.

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