You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.
If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.
Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"
This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.
With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.
Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.
Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.
Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
I notice that a little bit at The Office, with, like, an actor: If I decided there'd be a certain way in the script, it would still seem open-ended, whereas. . . if I was a man I would not have seen that.