OTR

and I shambled after as usual as I have done my whole life after the people that interested me

cause the only people that interest me are the mad ones

the ones who were mad to live, mad to talk

desirous of everything at the same time

the ones that never yawn or say a common place thing

but burned- burn, burn like roman candles across the night

click

Light a fire, without a spark

Light a fire, a flame in my heart

We'll run wild

We'll be glowing in the dark

whitney picspam ♥

"There's nothing worse than getting creatives into a room and then telling them they have to do something. Cause they're all leaders, all creatives are leaders in their own way. They're all rebels a little, that's why they're creative. They'll do what they want to do."

Stuart: A Life Backwards

If you've honestly got an hour and a half to sit here, watch this movie. I love most indies because they all have their great messages and they're more relatable, but I really really loved this one for some reason. I guess it's a true story and it all really happened, but I wonder if the real guy this movie is based off of was like Tom Hardy. Meaning, I wonder if Tom really portrayed the guy to a tee or if this was all just Tom's humor, intelligence, and genuinely interesting loveability shining through.

He makes you want to love the guy, and makes you laugh. He makes you cry. He makes you feel pity and makes you feel removed from someone so damaged. Maybe Tom Hardy as an actor could easily become Stuart because he's had the same addictions and has a lot of his own issues (?) either way he should've won that BAFTA in 2008. I wish really bad...

Just ran across this after I finished typing and made myself smile ♥

"I love Stuart. I love him. I feel for him, his pain, d'you know what I mean? There's more pain in him than there is in me and there's a gratitude there in some ways, because I think, 'Well at least I'm not in as much pain as this poor guy' I don't want to make it sound sentimental, though. Alexander has written something that sings. I fell in love with the piece. I could hear the music of it.....

I had a lot in common with Stuart, with the exception of a couple of very serious experiences - specifically the child abuse he suffered, and the muscular dystrophy. Everything else I have full comprehension of. I could relate to the drugs and his attitude at points, too -- d'you know what I mean? There were a lot of similarities between us. I thought 'Oh, oh, oh, I can bring something to this!' It came from my own baggage....
Stuart was the best role I've ever had -- probably ever will have."

“I wanted to establish myself as someone you would take notice of. I’m not a natural comedian, nor am I a Hugh Grant white-collar type. I fall into the category of being good at slightly dysfunctional, erratic personality disorders and I thought, ‘If I can change my body to meet that, do a variety of accents and hit a few people on screen, then maybe people might take me seriously.'”