The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.
I need eclectic people in my life.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
And I think it's true of any big organization. . . Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence. . . stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.
My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.
Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.
I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.