If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
. . . There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere. " To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.
I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.
A woman knows a skirt-chaser.
Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.
Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.