I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
I’m impossible to forget, but I’m hard to remember.
So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
The future isn’t just something that happens. It’s a brutal force, with a great sense of humor, that’ll steamroll you if you’re not watching.
My dream is to do exactly what I’m doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That’s great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
RRC remains the best publication to hit my mailbox.
We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain’t as sweet.
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
The power of music is still with me, every day. It’s one of the most inspiring things available in the world. I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me. But, I think it just came from being affected by strong, personal art.
When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it’s all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you’re interested in. It’s a balancing act.
If you try to write something that’s memorable, you’ll never get it. Sometimes it’s the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it’s good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.
That’s how I am as a director – if somebody does a really good take, I can’t help it, I’m not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.
What you believe one day isn’t what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
Many people don’t have an outlet for their feelings or how they can express life and not everybody in a relationship is the kind of person who wants to. But if you can write, you can find a good way to do it.
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it’s kind of like that.
You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn’t. Some people are ‘I’m not in the mood for that; thanks.’
I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it’s good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that’s visually iconic, or emotionally that way.