I Am Not Who I Want To Be And It Kills Me

She’s very cheeky, this girl. But that’s why I like her. 

“The film is a coming of age story and it’s dealing with how you become an individual, how you become autonomous from your parents. I think it’s something we all have to go through at various stages in our lives… asking those fundamental questions of where we come from and how much of that past we’ve internalized. In this case, Thelma comes from a religious strict family background and she falls in love with a girl and her parents are very rigid about and conservative. I wanted to make a love story about someone who feels like a freak. I know a lot of people who have gone through that struggle of feeling that the way they felt about love or themselves was not acceptable. I wanted to make a film about a strong young woman who’s grappling with that.” - Joachim Trier, director of Thelma (2017)

It’s nice to be told you’re beautiful or hot or whatever, but I’d love to hear some say that I make things easier, that they’re happy I exist, they don’t know what they’d do with out me, I’m strong, that they hope we never lose each other, that they’re proud of me, that I have something to offer. Compliments don’t always have to be about appearance.

Michael George

I thought I would be understood without words.

Vincent Van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh (via nitrogen)