Sometimes Creativity Is A Compulsion, Not An

There Are So Many People Who Are Conscientious And Caring About Others. I've Spent Time Working In Countries Where I Really Noticed The Absence Of Civic Concern, Care For Other People. I've Been In Other Countries Where I Feel A Palpable, Almost Tooth-and-claw Attitude Between People - Machiavellian, Me And Mine. And You Can Take For Granted Being Here, With All The Bloviating And The Media, On A Day-to-day Level, People In This Country Are Really Pretty Concerned For Each Other.

Fame Is Very Corrosive And You Have To Guard Very Strictly Against It.

What We Set Out To Do With This Movie [leaves Of Grass] Was To Create Something That Was Funny And Serious And Had Large Tonal Ambitions. A Movie That Could Be Poignant And Funny, And Suddenly Quite Violent. To Have A Character Utterly Sideswiped, And To Learn That Life Is About Balance.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way.

I'm Fascinated By The Ways In Which People Express Themselves, Because Their Responses Are Often Counter To What They're Actually Feeling. Like When They're Frightened, They Tend To Freeze. When They're Angry, It Doesn't Always Come Out As Volume. There Are Wonderful Contradictions In The Way That People Express Their Emotions.