As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
The hardest thing about being famous is that. . . in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. . . . You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
I think that kind of balance comes with the process of growing together as a band, the Little Dragon. We love to write, we love to create, we love to play live, and I think we love and appreciate what we have together. How that evolves, and how we balance it, is something that's come with time. At the start we were all like, "Tour tour tour. We just want to play. That's all we want to do. "
For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.