All life is a struggle in the dark.
The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet. "
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.
In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.
I won't try to be anybody else. I just try to be myself.
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics. . . that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Be assured, there is nothing new in theology except that which is false.