God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not. . . well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available. '
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.