The World Motivation
There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.
“There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.”
— Justin Kurzel · Brick
There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.
As a white Australian, you're surrounded by this vast landscape you know isn't yours, so you're always intimidated. You expect to vanish up a mountain or get eaten by the ground.
Oh, 'Step Brothers' is genius. I could watch that film a thousand times.
The first time I went to Cannes, Gus Van Sant was there in competition with 'Last Days.'
When I was 17, I moved to Sydney to study set design at NIDA.
I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.
I certainly didn't grow up feeling there were brick walls in front of me.
It's been brick by brick for me, it's been song by song, it has been team member by team member, it has been fan by fan.