If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

My dad has always been the bohemian.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore."

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.