American democracy and the Soviet system can exist simultaneously and compete peacefully. But one cannot develop into the other.
I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
I just go with what excites me.
This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
I tried to put myself up for adoption several times.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely.
With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.