As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.
It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important. . . CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television. . . I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.
Across th street is a hell of a tester.
It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.