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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. ”
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. ”
I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something. ”
Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you. ”
Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative. ”
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. ”
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws. ”
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. ”
People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained. ”
I think cooking has the same creative process as designing, where you have the ingredients, you have the alchemy part of it, and you have the satisfaction of seeing your creation become a reality. ”