Bruce, have you been drinking?
Posted by Philip Bryer on 3 September 2008 - 8:44pm.
Writer/Director of Withnail, Bruce Robinson, said that as a method of seeking inspiration, he would make short work of a bottle or so of Rioja or similar on rising at 8AM. Bottle killed within maybe 20 minutes, he would proceed to write down the 100 thoughts that boiled out of his brain and then lay down his weary, and no doubt confused, frame for the rest of the morning. Later - and waking with a rotten bloody headache to boot, I'd have thought - he would review what he'd done, and if he was lucky there might, in amongst the drunken dross, be an unbidden pearl.
Ever suffered for your art? Found a shortcut to the muse? Or know of someone who has?
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Pain...
I was once taking a photograph of a landscape on a winter's day and waited for an hour or so for the right light... I then noticed that my hand had frozen to my tripod. Ouch.
On a freezing night...
...at Reading Town Hall in the mid-seventies, the support act - a bearded bloke with a stool, an acoustic guitar, and a sense of humour uttered the words, "I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn."
Didn't happen.
Not until the main event, Camel performing The Snow Goose.