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Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.
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There are things that you could do with film that you could never do with HD. There's a warmth and an organic quality - almost a handmade quality - that goes into film. Film will always have a bit more of a humanistic feeling to it.
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I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside of the community. It's basically "jack off," you know? Masturbator. So I remember my mother was not pleased at the time. She was, like, "Oh, John, couldn't you have used a better word?" There's no better word, Mom!
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You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.
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I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.
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A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.
