We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.
I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination. " Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 911, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm. . . all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then
Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence. " I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me to pick anything else, because this was the life I knew.
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.
I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for me, certain books, just by reading a phrase I feel I can write.
