Love can be sordid only if you work at it.
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours. "
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.
WITNESSING: God loves it; Satan hates it. So do you think you should be doing it?