A thread on #acting: "So many people WANT to do it. You have to NEED to do it." This was said by Sir Derek Jacobi during a Q&A I attended years ago, and it hasn't left me. What's the difference you might ask? Well, it's how you approach getting to where you want to be.

Used to really love Twitter. Part of me still does. Managed to avoid the BS & just saviour the creative inspiration it can offer. This will be my last tweet unless something changes re: ownership. Account will be active, but not checked. New Insta: @ EdIsmail_ Stay Creative🙌

"Anyone can become a writer, but the trick is to stay a writer." ~ Harlan Ellison

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Join me for my workshop on 20th February ✍🏻❤️

Nicolas Cage's words to David Lynch: "He was a singular genius in cinema, one of the greatest artists of this or any time. He was brave, brilliant & a maverick with a joyful sense of humor. I never had more fun on a film set than working with Lynch. He will always be solid gold"

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TUNE IN! "Take something and put a spin on it ... make me see something that I haven't seen before" - Curator Ed Ismail discusses how to grab his attention with your films!  #creative  #filmmaking  #filmfestival  #shortfilm

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What if instead of posting about all the horrible happenings of the day, we all just continue posting David Lynch stuff for another week or two?

Today would have been David Lynch’s 79th birthday.

DAVID LYNCH, Time cover. Oct 1, 1990.

cameron diaz talking about the first time she realizes that people will be able to take pictures of her with their phones in 2003

David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive has joined the One Million Watched Club 🤍

In the week we lost beloved David Lynch may we be reminded that no matter how much Ai advances - art needs humans, needs creativity, the "heart" (sorry). We will never have a Lynch from formula or code, or learned behaviour. Art is authentic, art is language between humans.

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london pals! The Prince Charles Cinema is doing an all night David Lynch film marathon on the 31st of May 🫶🏾

“He really has the two things – the weirdest mind, and the most wholesome mind.” @RealGDT wasn’t “brave enough” to approach the late David Lynch when he saw him, but he beautifully breaks down the paradox at the heart of his films.

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Very unfortunate circumstances that inspired it obviously but 24 hours where everyone just collectively agreed to post about nothing but how much we love and are going to miss one of the greatest artists ever is probably the most usable this site has been in years.