Optimism Is A Revolutionary Act

And I Liked That Whole Idea That Energy Comes From Not Disseminating Your Ideas And Talking About Them.

Conception Of A Film Starts With The Music. Always. I Hear The Movie Before I Can Ever Write It. I Would Say That 80% Of The Time, That's The Successful Stuff. It's The Other Stuff I Have To Work For To Get Right, And Sometimes It Doesn't Work Out, But The Music Is Always The Beginning. So I'm Still A Music Journalist.

The Battered Idealist. It's Just My Favorite Character ... To Me, A Hero Is Somebody Who Is Able To Accept The Environment Of The World, Deal With The Stuff That's Thrown In Their Path ... And Somehow Keep Their Heart.

I Always Loved Movies, But I Never Thought I Would Presume To Be A Screenwriter And Definitely Not A Director.

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.