‘In the end, everything is a gag.’
Charlie Chaplin

“Je est un autre. 
(I is someone else).” 

- Arthur Rimbaud

‘If I could fuck a mountain, Lord, I would fuck a mountain.’
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

‘Human cannonball needed in traveling Circus.  No previous experienced required.’  There it was in the local paper, bold and plain, my dream job.

The circus left town the next day, I didn’t even get an audition.  Filmmaker it is then.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson
 

I was in church with my friend Mark, who was in a wheelchair.  He was born with a deformation of the spine, and would never be able to walk.  We had heard an American miracle worker was preaching that night, and Mark was thinking maybe he might get healed.  We were just kids and sat [...]

A fortune teller once told me I would die young and that I will always be alone.  They just tell you what you want to hear.

When I was a kid, I put a red-hot iron on my face.  My brother stood stunned as a crimson mark slowly emerged across my cheek.  I looked in the mirror, and put some germolene cream on it , telling myself that no one would notice.  It started to blister and the pain got so intense I had [...]