My Job Is To Just Express Something

When Applied To Politics And Taken To Its Extreme, Kitsch Is The Mask Of Death. Fascism Was All Aesthetics. There Was No Core Principle To It. There Was No Truth To It.

The More You Expose Yourself As A Celebrity, The Less Interesting You Are To Watch In Your Work, Because If You're Putting Yourself Out There All The Time, You're Not Holding Anything Back.

I Was Raised Irish Catholic, But I Don't Consider Myself Irish Catholic: I Consider Myself Me, An American.

Poe Had This Curious Kind Of Alchemical Courage, Where He Took All The Terrible Things And Terrors That Happened In His Life, All This Shame And Fear And Pain, And Turned Them Into Great Works Of Art. He Was A Complex, Brilliant Person Who Was Just Wired Too Tight.

My Point Was That It's Hard To Make Good Films, But I'm Not Under Any Illusion That You Do All The Time.