David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.
Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.
I remember telling the head of Warner Brothers that if they'd just make a video for 'Ol' Red'... and if it didn't work, they could drop me from the label.
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
