A Lot Of What I'm Obsessed With

I'm Trying To Find Out What The Hell We - Who We Are.

The Cinema Began With A Passionate, Physical Relationship Between Celluloid And The Artists And Craftsmen And Technicians Who Handled It, Manipulated It, And Came To Know It The Way A Lover Comes To Know Every Inch Of The Body Of The Beloved. No Matter Where The Cinema Goes, We Cannot Afford To Lose Sight Of Its Beginnings.

Orson Welles Was A Force Of Nature, Who Just Came In And Wiped The Slate Clean. And Citizen Kane Is The Greatest Risk-taking Of All Time In Film. I Don’t Think Anything Had Even Seen Anything Quite Like It. The Photography Was Also Unlike Anything We’d Seen. The Odd Coldness Of The Filmmaker Towards The Character Reflects His Own Egomania And Power, And Yet A Powerful Empathy For All Of Them--it’s Very Interesting. It Still Holds Up, And It’s Still Shocking. It Takes Storytelling And Throws It Up In The Air.

I Always Tell The Younger Filmmakers And Students: Do It Like The Painters Used To...study They Old Masters. Enrich Your Palette. Expand The Canvas. There's Always So Much More To Learn.

Rock & Roll Seemed To Just Come To Us, On The Radio And In The Record Stores. It Became Our Music. . . But Then We Uncovered Another, Deeper Level, The History Behind Rock And R&b, The Music Behind Our Music. All Roads Led To The Source, Which Was The Blues.