If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.
Filmmaking is a real craft.
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
I'm a believer in film school.
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very. . . erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in.
If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.