Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.
All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.
I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.
I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films. ' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses. ' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.