 In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about. |
| And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them. |
| Time puts things in proper perspective. |
| It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well. |
| 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. |
| Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. |
| Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies. |
| People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while. |
