JOSS WEDON, DIRECTOR

GRADUATES:  Action is more important than words....but words are more important than nothing.  Here are 13 minutes of funny, serious, true words than can help you, if you occasionally think of them.

The two professor-administrators at the front, who probably invited him, get his dark entertaining humor and agree. The professor in the back is probably bored and thinks he's a jerk.  You can make your own decision.  (The English is clear and non-academic.)

The problem is that at graduation ceremonies, students are thinking about partying, their dates, supportive and non-supportive families, no job, the terrifyng future, being hot or cold, holding on to their caps in the wind, eating, texting, boredom, and having a good night's sleep, hopefully with someone.

Still, the Graduation Speech Ritual is one of civilization's more useful inventions, too often unused.

http://www.upworthy.com/behold-the-bluntest-funniest-and-deadliest-graduation-speech-in-the-history-of-the-known-universe?g=2&c=upw1

TONY SCOTT. FILM DIRECTOR

Personal Quotes.....

[on Ridley Scott] Nobody does toga movies like my brother.

[on Tom Cruise] A magnet for women.

[on Days of Thunder (1990)] The problem was, we started on the movie without a script. Tom [Cruise] was already part of the line-up when I arrived and they said: "Tom can sit behind the wheel of a race car and smoke a cigarette and this movie will make a fortune." And that was the attitude we went in with. Robert Towne would be writing the scenes at night, we would shoot in the morning. It was a dangerous way to work. But we really thought, "Look - it's racing cars and it's Tom Cruise!" But you always have to get a story and you've got to get character first, and we hadn't.

COMPLEX SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS

When we get 43 suggestions at one time, it is easier to ignore them, think they are too simplistic or sugary. I never read all the "self-help" books written to help us through life, because I was cynical and did not want ADVICE....No one ever follows advice. even good advice from friends. I rebelled. I followed my own path....but it has led me back here to this 90-year-old Midwestern woman's seemingly simplistic and unsophisticated, but actually complicated, life-altering, effective suggestions. it is easier to ignore these 43 ideas, than to really consider them deeply. The hardest thing to do, is to BEGIN to follow the ones we believe are right. As a social revolutionary and humanist, I believe all the wise lady's suggestions are right, and will definitely lead to a much happier, less frustrated, more fulfilled life....and Life is our goal.

by Regina Brett, 90                                                           (Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper)

"To celebrate growing older, I wrote 43 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written."

QUOTES - ART & FILM

“If Picasso limited himself in anything he would not be Picasso: he loves the world so much he wants to steal it and eat it.”......Randall Jarrett, Poet

 “The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.”......Leo Tolstoy

"While onegoalof movies is to entertain, the kind of film that I believe in and make, goes one step further. It compels a viewer to examine their own conscience. It stimulates thought." .....Sidney Lumet