The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.
Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right. " He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
Friends are flowers in life's garden.