It is really awkward to see myself on screen.
I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.
Happy endings make me puke.
What's wrong with transforming food?
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka. . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.
We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good.
You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.