I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.
An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.
There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.
I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two.
Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.
'The people' aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.
I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.
The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.
We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.
I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.
Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.
I don't believe that people are robots. I think you should try to get personal, try to put yourself in the film in a deep way, and try to give that to the viewer, even if some of them will not connect with that kind of universe and surreality.
They say films they are made by computers. There are computer programs to see statistically what people are more interested in, and they practice computer combinations in these things to try to have more viewers.
I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.
I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.
