I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.
Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.
Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person. . . there can be no liberty.
Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G. I. Joes and making up adventures for them.
The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such as a moment of silence. In addition to developing better designs and making equipment to insure the humane treatments of all animals, that would be my contribution.
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men [Leach and Shoji Hamada].
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
The harder the circumstances under which you're making a movie, generally the better the friends you make. You're far away from home and so you're kind of lonely, and you end up all gravitating towards each other and the bar every night. It tends to be inversely proportionate to the comfort level on the movie, how close you become to everybody.