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" ... (laughing) I wanted a Visconti meets security-camera aesthetic. I couldn't finance classical rendering of the scenes, with long wide tracking shots. I wanted the depth and texture of the places and costumes of the era, without fixating on them, so everything is glanced by, without laboring on it. When Oscar and Lord Alfred Douglas have their kind of love scene in a station hotel, it's got this Exorcist feeling to it. I wanted to create the impression that it happens to us all at some point — we do something so wrong that the universe freezes around us and the whole world watches in horror as you make this move you won't ever be able to retrieve yourself from. ... "
" ... 2) I am on mute, or was often on mute: and some people were quick to let me know. In fact, it appears that there’s always someone in meetings primarily focused on letting others know when they are on mute, a sort of Zoom equivalent to a tennis ball boy, fixating his eyes on the service line, ready to shout “out”. Turns out they are collaborating with machines and ready to be automated. Perhaps we could also automate humans who are exclusively dedicated to pointing out who is on mute? Otherwise here’s a suggestion: that everyone else in a meeting pretends to be on mute, lip syncing in silence, to make the mute vigilantes go mad. ... "
" ... Take for instance Mana Ionescu. She took a deep breath one day, and asked herself, "What am I really doing?" Life, her career and the company she was working for had become too transactional. The creativity was minimal. Ionescu knew who she was, but the organization that employed her was lacking a higher purpose. "There must be more to my working life than just sitting here making money, fixating on profit and not actually making an impact,” she mused to herself. ... "
" ... The visibility present when approaching a landing can be fixating. We know now where we are landing and we focus on that, possibly, at the risk of dismissing other options and ideas. We just want to land and get on with it, when maybe flying a bit longer would be helpful. Are you settling because this is where you happen to be, or are you willing to keep flying a bit more to find something that is better? ... "
" ... When you’re expecting a child, you spend every waking moment focusing on how the baby is developing. Then the baby arrives, and you realize you spent your time fixating on the wrong thing. Your obsession with sonograms disappears, only to be replaced by an overwhelming feeling of unpreparedness for what comes next. ... "