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WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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because we're all God manifest in that sense. [Man] Mm-hmm. [Man] So film is actually like a record of God, or the face of God, or the ever-changing face of God. You have a mosquito. You want me to get it for you? You got it. Yeah.
[Man] I got it? [Man] There, it's gone. And like the whole Hollywood thing has taken film and tried to make it this storytelling medium where you take these books or stories, and then you, like, you get the script, and then try to find somebody who fits the thing. But it's ridiculous, because it shouldn't be based on the script. It should be based on the person, the thing. And um -- And in that sense, they're almost right to have this whole star system, because then it's about that person instead of the story. [Man] Right. [Man] Truffaut always said that the best films aren't made -- the best scripts don't make the best films, because they have that kind of literary, narrative thing that you're sort of a slave to. The best films are the ones that aren't tied to that slavishly. So, um -- so -- I don't know. The whole narrative thing seems to me like -- Obviously there's narrativity to cinema 'cause it's in time, just the way there's narrativity to music. You don't first think of the story of the song, then make the song. It has to come out of the moment. And that's what film has. It's just that moment which is holy. You know, like this moment, it's holy. But we walk around like it's not holy. We walk around like there's some holy moments and there are all the other moments that are not holy, but this moment is holy. Right? [Man] Right. Right.
[Man] And if film can let us see that, we can frame it so
that we see, like, "Ah, this moment. Holy." Like "holy, holy, holy," moment by moment.
But who can live that way? Who can go, "Wow, holy!"? Because if I were to look at you and
let you be holy -- I don't know. I would, like, stop talking.
[Man]
You could laugh too. I mean, why would you cry? [Man] Uh-huh. Well -- [Man] Well, let's do it right now. Let's have a holy moment.
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