To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
In my heart of hearts, I know that whatever I do is going to have integrity, and I'm going to work really hard, and I know that fans are going to take to it.
I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.
I'm going to have fans and I'm going to have people who don't like everything I do. All I can really do is go to work and do my job.
So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'
When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.
You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is...
...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.
People will not change their minds but they will make new decisions based upon new information.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
