I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
Don’t get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.
Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.
I think entire social groups are formed through technologies that could never exist in the real world, and relationships that are a function of these technologies' ability to accelerate feeling and emotional contact.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. . . . The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.