CLARKE: THAT F*CKING GUY! - A MOMENT OF CLARITY...

29th April 2010

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A MOMENT OF CLARITY…

Now…

I love films… I love TV… I love what i do and would do it no matter what.

I love talking about films to people, espicially young people and sharing their enthusism. I’m not perfect, i’m not the best, and there is soooo much I still don’t know. Sometimes talking to people is as much of a learning expirience for me as it is for them.

So when I went to the BFI yesterday and was met with a 99% dead crowd… I was dissapointed, I was annoyed, and I got angry.

don’t get me wrong i don’t have mad dellusions of grandue. I don’t expect people to fall to their knees and start worshiping or anything even near to that, but if someone comes to see you, in the very industry that you are interested in, show some fucking interest. I could have been at home with my son having family time. I felt that, and got angry and was rude, which I shouldn’t have been and you should of course never be.

I’m not apologizing, becasue i was driven to that, by un-appreciative, non-responsive, non interested, non listening people who obviously know better than me.

It got me thinking. (yes there was a smell of burning rubber) And I had a moment of clarity. Why waste my time and talk to people that are not interested. Surely there are people who do want to talk films and acting and writing and directing that are actually passionate about learning, want to hear about my mistakes, things that were done correctly, and share their knowledge and ideas with me.

So here’s what we’re gonna do…

From now on.

I will do no more invited talks… I will organize talks and school and colleges and people that actually want to come can do that. That way, only people actually interested will turn up.

Win Win… People who think i talk shite (which i do) and people who don’t want to come never have to hear or see anything, again… ever. People that do will.

I’m also going to limit acces from people that just want to ask for jobs and do no work. People who want to get in quick…. So from today the myspace page that has been up for years will be deleted. All social networking sites run for me will be stopped except facebook and twitter… But…

I will no longer share the facebook duties and will hand that over almost completely to the guys that run it. instead of it being 50/50 it’ll be 90/10 to them and i will only post now and again.

A website will be set up where people can communcate and get news and you will only get me 100% on twitter. (blogs here)

Thank you to anyone supporting what I’m trying to do…

Lazy un appreciative people…

bye bye.