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I'm very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that - no. ”
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game. ”
A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well. ”
There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is. ”
I get such a rush out of seeing other people doing well. ”
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. ”
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! ”
Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work. ”
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from. ”
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics. ”