Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate, very poised, obviously a smart girl who talked about a very traumatic experience.
I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity. ' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.
You look for inspiration, I do, that got me going.
I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anything he could say, that's the funny thing. It was all the stupid, desperately optimistic, condescending things he didn't say that kept me alive; all the compassion and wamrth I felt from him that could not have been said; all the intelligence, competence, and time he put into it; and his granite belief that mine was a life worth living.
He that takes a wife, takes care
Bebop has set music back twenty years.
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing. . . raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting. . . Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality. . . Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.