If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.
So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.
When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.
Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.
In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.