The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
I feel very lucky that I've been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It's so hard to get into.
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.
Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
