The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and pai...
I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.
I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
Then Gai told me about the famous cup of the heart, which I should now begin to empty. The Sufis compare our spiritual heart, the seat of God within us, with a cup into which the love of God flows. This cup, however, needs to be emptied before it can...
Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he design...
Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.
I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.
Education is a process of unlearning and learning.
The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
As a human being, I'm work in process.
A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
I loved the process of writing.
The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
