{"id":516,"date":"2003-01-17T10:22:12","date_gmt":"2003-01-17T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2003-01-17T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2003-01-17T14:22:12","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Words to live by"},"content":{"rendered":"From an interview with the heroic Aki Kaurismaki in the <em>Guardian<\/em>: <blockquote>I am a lousy film-maker, this I admit. But I refuse to make shit. Bad films I can make. Shit, no&#8221;.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<blockquote>&#8220;&#8221;Tell me, who wrote the book called High Fidelity? Nicholas someone? Hornby? Well, it is the most boring book I ever read. I hated every line because it was just what you are talking about. Every joke, ha ha ha &#8221; &#8211; he clutches his sides for effect &#8211; &#8220;every joke so obvious. And now it is the same in films. It is Hollywood&#8217;s fault. Hollywood is the reason I make the films I do. Because I hate it. And I would never go there or waste my time watching their films because . . . well, I am a lousy film-maker, this I admit. But I refuse to make shit. Bad films I can make. Shit, no.&#8221;<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with the heroic Aki Kaurismaki in the Guardian: I am a lousy film-maker, this I admit. But I refuse to make shit. Bad films I can make. Shit, no&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}