Because what are you going to do when Emerald Fennell calls you about her next project where you play Carey Mulligan’s coworker in the bridal section of Harrod’s and then act 3 takes a sexually violent turn and you have to act surprised by that turn????
there is little worse in this world than people being horny for your favourite character that you are not horny for. shut up about his dick i wanna talk about his narrative significance
I can’t exist by myself because I’m afraid of myself, because I’m the maker of my own evil. Isabelle Adjani as Anna in Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski
Pretention is trying to make it seem like things have deeper meaning than they really do, so if I ever feel pretentious I ask myself, “Do I know why this is there? Can I explain this creative decision, even if the answer is just, ‘I take pleasure in this thing being in my work’ or ‘This is an authentic expression of what I’m thinking/feeling’?” And if I find that I can explain the meaning behind it then I know I’m not being pretentious
