It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.
The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent the world over. Given the disparity of income and wealth, it's amazing not just that you don't get robbed everywhere - it's amazing you don't get eaten.
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
