Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn’t handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.
Your heart has a little empty corner. You won’t even know I’m there – I’ll be very quiet.
I lost you when you left me to find yourself.
This is the saddest, most depressing music I’ve ever heard. It makes me so happy.
I’m the last person to tell my friends to go see something I’m in. I could care less if friends of mine never saw anything I’m in.
He loved me. He loves me not.
I just need some time away to remember why I stay.
I didn’t want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.
I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.
You’re gone. No mailing address. But I send you letters anyway.
I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.
His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.
Normally you read a screenplay – and I read a lot of them – and the characters don’t feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that’s when things start feeling fake and boring.
Why am I doing the work I’m doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don’t see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.
I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young.
Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that’s when you can start doing things that they don’t expect.