I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
I have a fear of being boring.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.