In My Mind It's So Much Fun

I Quit Smoking In December. I’m Really Depressed About It. I Love Smoking, I Love Fire, I Miss Lighting Cigarettes. I Like The Whole Thing About It, To Me It Turns Into The Artist’s Life, And Now People Like Bloomberg Have Made Animals Out Of Smokers, And They Think That If They Stop Smoking Everyone Will Live Forever.

When You Get An Idea, So Many Things Come In That One Moment. You Could Write The Sound Of That Idea, Or The Sound Of The Room It's In. You Could Write The Clothes The Character Is Wearing, What They're Saying, How They Move, What They Look Like. Instead Of Making Up, You're Actually Catching An Idea, For A Story, Characters, Place, And Mood - All The Stuff That Comes. When You Put A Sound To Something And It's Wrong, It's So Obvious. When It's Right, The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Parts. That's A Magical Thing That Can Happen In Cinema.

Making A Film Is A Beautiful Mystery. You Go Deep Into The Wood, And You Don't Want To Come Out Of That Wood.

I Like The Saying: "the World Is As You Are." And I Think Films Are As You Are. That's Why, Although The Frames Of A Film Are Always The Same - The Same Number, In The Same Sequence, With The Same Sounds - Every Screening Is Different. The Difference Is Sometimes Subtle But It's There. It Depends On The Audience. There Is A Circle That Goes From The Audience To The Film And Back. Each Person Is Looking And Thinking And Feeling And Coming Up With His Or Her Own Sense Of Things. And It's Probably Different From What I Fell In Love With.

Digital Video Is So Beautiful. It's Lightweight, Modern, And It's Only Getting Better. It's Put Film Into The La Brea Tar Pits.