Arthur Penn: Intention and Specificity
"Specificity frightens and escapes people, and I can understand that: It takes great courage--massive balls--to announce what it is you intend to do; what it is you hope to become. It was never easy, but over time it became poisonous to most, so there is this fuzzy ambition, this delicate dreaming that has taken the place of bold intention. And the world has decided that the dream is enough, and so we reward everyone who has a hope, a yen, a desire. Intention and specificity have to return. Tell the world what it is you would like to be, and things shift in a way that, at the very least, reveal to you how wrong or right you are." --Arthur Penn/Interview with James Grissom/2006/Photograph by Rainer Binder