People Think Drama Drives Story, But I

In A Sea Of Stories, Find The Right One To Tell, And The Right Way To Tell It.

To Those Humans In Whom I Have Faith; I Wish Suffering, Being Forsaken, Sickness, Maltreatment, Humiliation. I Wish That They Should Not Remain Unfamiliar With Profound Self-contempt, The Torture Of Self-mistrust, And The Misery Of The Vanquished. I Have No Pity For Them Because I Wish Them The Only Thing That Can Prove Today Whether One Is Worth Anything Or Not—that One Endures' . . . Remember, The Passion For Destruction Is Also A Creative Passion.

That's The History Of Art - You Have To Consider Yourself Fortunate If You Ever Get Acknowledged. If You Have A Critical Success That's Also A Financial Success And That You Feel Good About... If Things Line Up, That's Pretty Rare.

If We're All Going To Die, Shouldn't We Be Enjoying Ourselves Now?

I Have A Lot Of Films That I Haven't Gotten Made, And That Continues To Trouble Me. But Someday, Some Way Or Another, I Think I Will. It's All About Timing. There's A Moment When You're Hot And Studios Will Make Your Next Film, And Then There's A Moment When You're Really Cold, And They Couldn't Care Less What You Want To Do Next. That's When You Have To Recede And Make Lower-budgeted Films.