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You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.
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Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked.
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I could take you for a walk on the beach and I could point out just about any creature and give you their Latin names.
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A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.
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The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
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The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.
