I prefer true over happy now.
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.
Everyone understood [Charlie Hebdo], as people had understood for hundreds of years, knowing that Rabelaisian tradition of French satire, they knew how to read it. And they understood the kind of release from piety that it represented every week.
Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.
Charlie Hebdo mocked everyone. They mocked the left. They mocked the right. They mocked, above all, the extreme right, the extreme right of Le Pen's. If anything could identify their politics, they were kinds of anarchists.
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show. " This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life.
Being at odds with policies is nothing new to me.
There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.
I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L. A. or New York. I live in Texas, and I go to hole-in-the-wall bars, so there's no paparazzi there.
If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.