Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
Washington is a place where good ideas go to die.
I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. . . . How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.