I Was Once A Shameless, Full-time Dope

The Artist Himself Is Actually The Subject In Everything After, Say, 1900. Eventually, Art Becomes So Removed From The Community That You Have To Know About The Artist Before You Can Even Look At The Painting, Because There Is A Conceptual Idea Going On.

I Was Petrified Because All My Friends Would Be Going To Washington, Dc, To Protest. I Was Sixteen, And I Was Like, "i Don't Think I'll Be Going With You Guys," Just Because I Was Scared. Then You Saw The News, And Cops - Not Students In Schools With Guns - Cops Are Killing Sixteen Year Old Protesters On The News. To Me That Was More Horrifying, To Have The Authority Figures Actually Killing People On The Evening News, Than To Have Another Student Firing A Gun.

I'm Not Being Analytical. I Just Create Everything Intuitively. If You're Too Analytical, What You're Doing Probably Ends Up Being Too Specific.

When You're On A Film And You're Doubting Something, It's Usually Because You Don't Think The Audience Is Going To Like It.

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become A Director Without Learning The Craft Of Cinematography.