When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.
One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are hisher notes.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
It takes no imagination to live within your means.
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U. S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.
A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.