every young person goes through a phase of trying on different personalities, but I think in the end I came back to myself. And I think that I was right to do that.
I don’t want to do worldly cinema: “Hold your breath, this is art.” To me, that’s bullshit. “Kevin” is a psychological horror film. It uses genre elements, so hopefully it’s exciting to watch.
while your imagination can sometimes be limitless, as a producer you have to realize the very physical and financial boundaries that you face. And you have to tell your story accordingly, and keep it as interesting as possible while also being realistic.
I just really love film; I love the quality and look of it. I’m sentimental.
Filmmaking is intense and it’s always different with every film you make. It’s always intense, everyday has a different challenge. It’s not tiring though, you just get into a flow. It’s like music and all the notes, you don’t count, it just flows.
I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.
if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it’s usually wrong, and it’s necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary.
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
I’m sitting here at age 52 with almost all of my own teeth. That didn’t used to happen. I’m a cyborg. I’m immune to any number of lethal diseases by virtue of technology. I’m sitting on top of this enormous pyramid of technology that starts with flint hand-axes and finds me in a hotel in Austin, Texas, talking to someone thousands of miles away on a telephone and that’s just what we do. At this point, we don’t have the option of not being technological creatures.
One commonality about people I follow is that they’re all doing what I’m doing: They’re all using it as novelty aggregation and out of that grows some sense of being part of a community. It’s a strange thing. There are countless millions of communities on Twitter. They occupy the same virtual space but they never see each other. They never interact. Really, the Twitter I’m always raving about is my Twitter.
When we moved into our new place and the Tokyo Gas guy came to visit, he noticed that our stove wasn’t lighting quickly and...
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” — Buddha
[Photo taken at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax,...
Ernest Hemingway
Truer words were never spoken. If you’re a sleep...