A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.
I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.
Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
I think being a little nuts is helpful.
I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.
To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.