The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
Our actions are the ground we walk on.
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.
Everything I experience influences everything I do.
I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
I stop short of being a workaholic.
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and the doctrine that physical and psychological pain are the greatest evils.
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.