Buñuel shows us, rather brilliantly, the way in which some people are driven by weird passions - but that these passions, when fulfilled, don't always make them happy.
"Or, as he said, in Roy-speak, 'Because you like pussy movies.' He's not trying to shove some weird love story he's had a passion for since he was six down the studios' throats.
Aided by the high oil prices of recent years, and despite its "Keep Austin Weird" slogan and passion for clean energy, Austin is increasingly attracting oil and gas companies like Three Rivers, a small firm founded in 2009 that focuses on oil development in West Texas and New Mexico.
But there is a weird lack of passion here, almost condescension, a sense that Scrooge's agonised moral journey into his past is potentially pretty dull, and so Zemeckis is always livening things up by whooshing the old miser excitingly through the night sky between visions – a London thrill-ride perhaps influenced by the Harry Potter movies.
He also has a weird, but deep passion for supply-chains.
Seeds donated by a supporter of Feed the Birds, including White Widow, Dutch Passion, Weird Sleeve, Smelly Berry, and Black Sugar.
It can be scary -- maybe our passion seems weird, our dreams too far out of reach.
Her personal background — sheltered, rebellious child of a cosmopolitan Jewish family; successful, dissatisfied fashion photographer; insecure, hungry spirit — explains much about her life, including her eccentric passion for the weird and the seedy.
"The Passion of Martin" was weird and arty — a black comedy based on an Argentine novella about an obsessive, one-sided love affair — but its confident storytelling and technical competence attracted attention in Hollywood.
In 2010, they founded Toilet Paper, a magazine born out of their shared passion for making gleefully weird imagery.
