Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
The only thing that takes away from it is when they steal some music from one of my movies and put it in a TV commercial. I am not crazy about influencing TV commercials. But if I legitimately influence someone making a movie, I think that is really flattering.
If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to. . . I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.
With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and. . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.