I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.
I'm always excited to work with actors.
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work and therefore do them, because I would have no doubt even though there was no solid foundation for this confidence. I don't think I would be a real inventor. But when I set out to do animation, which was my first step into film-making, I realised I could achieve this idea. I could take some elements, create a sort of clumsy invention, and make them work for the camera.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.
Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations. "
When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.
The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.