I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.
There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.
I don't think there is any one route to directing. . . . Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.
Punk rock, when I was a part of it, was called 'the underground. ' There was something very attractive in all the hidden places, the hidden histories.
Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.
It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.