Raymond Cummings

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Where’s the Laughter?

1 day ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Daniel Winters: The script was transforming every day because no one knew what movie they wanted it to be. Malice: And when you look at the outcome, it gets no realer than that for me. Winters: It’s the greatest work of God or Man in 2 billion years. Malice: That’s what’s up, man, that’s what’s up. Winters: The dead silence at the premiere still haunts me. ••• Malice: It was a shock. It was always a threat that you lived with.
It’s Kind of Fun That Way

1 week ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Robert A. Caro: You feel, God, people don't understand. They've forgotten what government can do for them or to them. Kevin Drumm: I know. Seriously, though, it is getting too expensive. Caro: Well, sure. Yes. Drumm: Lately things seem to stop working for mysterious reasons. Caro: Because people have a need to fill the silence. ••• Drumm: That compelled me, I guess, to take this "unconventional" approach a step further and make some attempt at developing my own language.
One Hundred Percent

2 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Beatriz Ferreyra: Are you conscious or not? Jeffrey Wright: No. In fact, it's the opposite. Ferreyra: It’s visual. [laughs] It doesn’t work. Wright: Sure. Oh, yeah. I was just exhausted. Ferreyra: You’re in your bed and you’re able to go see other people. ••• Wright: And we would go out and have these magical, magical days on the Chesapeake, you know, when it was a vibrant body of water.
This is Real Life

3 weeks ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Euzhan Palcy: We don’t know what will happen to you. This is real life. Britt Daniel: And it was full of nudity and depravity and bizarro violence and sado-masochism. Palcy: Everybody dances, they do that everywhere. Daniel: I love that it was all one take. Palcy: [laughs] I had a nervous breakdown. ••• Daniel: Some of it’s shot on location, some of it’s shot in front of a projection of the same locations with me walking in front of that projection. Palcy: Yes.
I’ve Sold the Rights to HBO

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Ernest J. Gaines: You try to not answer things but to perk the interest or the intellect of the reader and let him ask questions. It’s a catch-22. Scarlett Johansson: It’s so nice to come home and have this fluffy, warm thing purring and rubbing your leg. Samuel L. Jackson got eaten whole. Gaines: Danny Glover plays a social worker who visits prisons. Johansson: All I could think was, “I’m being interviewed by David Letterman.” Gaines: I’ve sold the rights to HBO.
You’re Revealing Your Psyche

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Mary Gaitskill: Something that has been a little nerve-racking about it—and maybe why I ultimately can’t keep doing it—is that, because the response is so quick, it’s kind of jangling. Robert Motherwell: It depends on the inner sensory discriminations and life of whoever is looking. Gaitskill: Political events, social events. Motherwell: Maybe. Nothing is ahistorical. Gaitskill: You’re revealing your psyche.
Yeah, There We Go

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Dan Sandin: It’s absurd. You just envision the conclusion and your hands do it. Beatie Wolfe: Then you set it off in the world and just see what it does, without any needs or expectations. Sandin: Of course there are still people debating whether or not that should be done. Wolfe: I ended up doing the whole thing on my own, powering through. Sandin: You can write your own nodes and extend the capabilities.
I Didn’t Have a Clue

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Harold Budd: My expectation is exactly what happened: It was total chaos, total confusion. No one knew anything, including me. I didn’t have a clue. Yaa Gyasi: I’m hunkered down in Brooklyn and trying to make sense of what the next few months will look like. Budd: It wasn’t an alien thought. That was the start of a change.
You Can’t Break Anything in a City

1 month ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Brian Eno: All that formula and repetition is like a great big vehicle for carrying the moment of difference — the tiny point where something happens that didn’t happen before. Elizabeth Becker: The unpredictability has never frustrated me. Eno: I know. I tend to be nervous about everything. Becker: You put your intention onto the page, just like you put your intention out into the universe, but you cannot control the results. Eno: Oh, that’s interesting.
No One Gets a Free Pass

2 months ago | splicetoday.com | Raymond Cummings

Timothy Snyder: I don’t know what my Twitter password is. Nick Denton: And I think that would be the absolute best outcome. Snyder: The meaningfulness of little individual choices is there, you know? Denton: Correct. You see it on TikTok, the American tourists arriving in some place, marveling at how low the rents are, whether it’s Medellín or Lisbon or— Snyder: Sad is exactly right.