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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other. ”
The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. ”
I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig. ”
For Virgin Galactic's customers, it is transportation to the most amazing experience of their lives. I very much look forward to sending some Scots into space. ”
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. ”
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. ”
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. ”
I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me. ”
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. ”
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience. ”