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I Chased an Ambulance Tonight

Monday, November 23, 2009

My colleague and I had been walking around looking for some compelling footage to shoot for a documentary exercise for directing class. We captured a few things, not extraordinary we knew, but still, something. I was on my way back home crossing Tiong Bahru Rd, when I saw an ambulancing… More

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mattechi: Intriguing. Even an Ezra Pound reference in this book - "Petals on a wet, black bough." Imagistic poetry and deconstruction abound here.

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“A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good film making. It’s not what films are for[…] The best scenes I ever wrote were practically monosyllabic. And the best short scene I ever wrote, by my own judgement, was one in which a girl said “uh-huh” three times with three different intonations, and that’s all there was to it. The hell of good film writing is that the most important part is what is left out. It’s left out because the camera and the actors can do it better and quicker, above all quicker. But it had to be there in the beginning.”

- Raymond Chandler

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