I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.
Theres a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.