If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.
The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
