I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.
Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.
There’s nothing like a good ol’ film light in a fogged up studio.
There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.
Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
I love music. I've just been putting studios together, here and at my house in New Jersey and so I can always make music and express my ideas and work with people to fine tune them to where they need to be.
But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.
When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to heading studios. So that's the biggest change of all from the early '50s, when I first started.
Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts. . . And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
Studios might support people trying to do something a little bit different and they'd be more open to the fact that there's more than one path to the waterfall.
Now women are rising to great positions and they run most of the studios now.
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.