Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000

Hard to rate it as a movie but speech is indeed phenomenal

Hard to rate it as a movie but speech is indeed phenomenal

i loved this insight into cocteau’s brain. the philosophical ideas he expressed (the girl in the car, the hitchhiking, the idea of genius writers and etc) were all very intriguing. i also felt very addressed directly by this time capsule which is quite lovely. jean is a very interesting and curious person, i think. his ideas are nothing i had thought of before and he’s expanded my mind in new directions openly. i am very very excited to watch his movies!

                “i’m starting out,”

i loved this insight into cocteau’s brain. the philosophical ideas he expressed (the girl in the car, the hitchhiking, the idea of genius writers and etc) were all very intriguing. i also felt very addressed directly by this time capsule which is quite lovely. jean is a very interesting and curious person, i think. his ideas are nothing i had thought of before and he’s expanded my mind in new directions openly. i am very very excited to watch his movies!

                “i’m starting out,”

"you certainly must still know the great painter called picasso. picasso said to me: 'it takes a long time to grow young.'

and he was right in the sense that someone young doesn't yet know which way to go, but contemplates whether to go left or right.

being worried is also being old, but slowly one finds one's way. one is no longer hitchhiking."

– jean cocteau


"i think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. you think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. and then you're thirty.

[...] you young people are in the exact age of desperation. i never felt more done and old than in my twenties.

i'd say, 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' but I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

– guillermo del toro


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maaaan, i wasn't going to drink tonight but i miss jean cocteau something fierce. also i know he would have loved youtube and having a podcast. so sad we don't get to live in a world where jean cocteau has a podcast.

"you certainly must still know the great painter called picasso. picasso said to me: 'it takes a long time to grow young.'

and he was right in the sense that someone young doesn't yet know which way to go, but contemplates whether to go left or right.

being worried is also being old, but slowly one finds one's way. one is no longer hitchhiking."

– jean cocteau


"i think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. you think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. and then you're thirty.

[...] you young people are in the exact age of desperation. i never felt more done and old than in my twenties.

i'd say, 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' but I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

– guillermo del toro


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maaaan, i wasn't going to drink tonight but i miss jean cocteau something fierce. also i know he would have loved youtube and having a podcast. so sad we don't get to live in a world where jean cocteau has a podcast.

i love cocteau so much

i love cocteau so much

Yap session but I’ll allow it as it’s Cocteau

Yap session but I’ll allow it as it’s Cocteau