The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
I don't watch something just because it's a specific genre.
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.
God is a creation of human brain
There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.
I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.
I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.
I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.
Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
Style is the image of character.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.
