In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.
Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people mov...
I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking.
All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.
We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
Express yourself, don't hurt yourself.
You cannot have the drama without comedy.
I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'
I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
