Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.
A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.
I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.
No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.