You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.
If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.
As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
I'll try anything once.
It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
I don't have to have my tits out to try to sell some kind of record. I can just be me and give songs that I'm into.
There are some ideas that I know I have to try out before I find the right sound, before I find the right melody.
The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.
That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.
I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.
I try not to eat processed foods, well, ever. If it comes from a lab or a factory, I don't want it.
The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?
As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".
The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.
I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
You can find the richness in any moment, even the most seemingly bleak. To try to do a movie about that was a joyful experience. So actually, it was really the context of it that made the experience so worthwhile, rather than the actual subject matter, if that makes sense.
