The Sun In Your Belly, The Fire In Your Heart
- Nitya M
- Jan 20, 2023
- 1 min read
From Lessons With Kiarostami, a phrase called out to me:
And then I thought about a Films Division short by S.N.S. Sastry, And I Make Short Films. There's a part where the narrator says, "A creative person means a man who has got the sun in his belly. Even Picasso has it, even at the age of eighty. The sun in his belly. The sun in your belly"
At the end of the film, in the voice over, a man asks: "Look, what do you want to convey in this film?" (and quite frankly - as a viewer I asked the same question).
The narrator responds:
Often when I get stuck, or am questioning why I do what I do, I like to remind myself to have the sun in my belly, the fire in my heart.


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