A 65-ft. -wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.
If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then. . . ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.
I. . . believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.
There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.
I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new to me so I had to use my fascination, and the fact that I'm almost a teenage filmmaker, to my advantage. And that's why I don't pretend to have made a good movie. . . but one that people are able to feel the love I have for this industry.
You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.