Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my neighborhood, which, at the time, was Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. This was in the 60s and 70s, before all the white people and restaurants. I really can't underscore boldly enough the fact that I grew up in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, before it was gentrified. You could get mugged!
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he. . . and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I. D. so that everyone can have an I. D. , primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I. D. They`ll have one to vote.
The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are less technical - it's 'I like it, or I don't like it. ' I hope that this film can have a life in the U. S. - it's the grand country of cinema. I grew up with Hollywood movies, so for a French director to have a film distributed in the U. S. is a real opportunity.