Ryder Strong

See, I think that there's something so profound that happens when you look at an amazing star, you know, like a sky filled with stars.

There's an awe in the face of nature that is really important to me.

Yeah.

And I feel like is even better when it's slightly earned.

In other words, like you- You got to hide to it or something like that.

Yeah, you got to hide to it.

Sure, sure, sure.

And there's something terrifying, genuinely terrifying to me about the solitude of the woods that in that terror actually makes me feel good.

Like I feel like I am-

somehow closer to reality or like closer to the real nature of things.

Does that make sense?

It's more about the, like, you know, the, the slight panic that comes from like being alone in the woods, looking around and being like, yeah, if I ran into a bear, it would, it would just kill me.

And it's not, it's not because the world's

an evil place, it's because the world is just a place where things happen.

And you are a physical body in it that as much as we like to think of ourselves as important, we're not.

And that feeling of like not being important is really profound to me.

And I cherish it, even though it scares me, right?

Like I want to be important.

I want to be the center of my own movie.

And getting into the woods is a sort of shortcut to that sense of inconsequence of your own life.