I'm not the Hollywood type of person.
You don't make movies about "men" and "women. " You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.
Theres a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. Hit Me doesnt sell this fantasy.
I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York.
Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
House Music isn't black or white. It just is. It feels good & it feels right.
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.