I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.
It's so hard to listen to an album you created and without remembering where you were when you wrote it or referencing the the recording experience.
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
Usually, when you're in a movie, you're disconnected from it. You're never going to feel what you felt when you made it.
I've watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be.
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.
I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'
One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.
I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.
