The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.
I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.
. . . So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office. They are not, like many of their employers, lobbying the halls of Congress with their gold plated tin cups asking to be paid for not growing crops. They are trying to do it in the way that millions of other Americans have shown is the right way-organization, unionism, collective bargaining.
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.
The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.