When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.
He's just fun, so much fun. I'm very happy now.
Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.
Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?
Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.
My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.
I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm. . . and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
Doing good to others is the # one great Universal Religion