Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.
If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.
When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.
When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.
I don't deal with writer's block, I don't allow myself to believe that there is such a thing. I think that there are good days and a lot more less good days.
I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business. I'm in the communications business. That's what it's for me.
If people get inspired by 'Baahubali' as a film, and they realize they can make a big film or a historical film which has good drama and good visuals, if they realize there are good stories to tell here, then it is good.
I have a fan base eager for more stuff. That makes me more than happy. I know I have an army behind me.
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.
Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.
Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.
The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.
Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.
I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.
I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them.
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.
No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
