I want a pit crew. . . I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
I just go with what excites me.
Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.
People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I mean, I look at the room tonight, you know, Kristen Stewart and Claire Danes, Jennifer Lawrence, all these young women that I worked with who basically were child actors like I was a child actor. And then I feel very protective of them, because even though I think I have managed to get through the process relatively sanely, I have my scars, and I hope to be in some ways a member of their family that's out there protecting them.
Every great drama has its foreshadow.
If we do our deficit spending on weapons, at least we get weapons. Then if we need weapons, we have them. If we don't need them, no harm is done.