I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.
The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.
I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.
Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.
I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.
The music business is just the worst as far as Machiavellian, sharky, evil games going on, as far as manipulation.
You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.
When it comes to fertility, there are so may things that have to go right. In any one individual, there might be one major problem and two minor ones or no major ones and seven minor ones. Throw in another person's physiology, and it's complicated. I try to give people the knowledge that they can make as many changes as they want.
When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.
I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.
The problem is the book business is changing so we're in a difficult moment now and if the business model is changing, I don't know if I'm going to have to look what's in store for me at that level but fortunately, I broke in earlier.
I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.
I exercise a lot and I love it. I'm fine. But you know, I'd like to be alive in ten years, that'd be my first priority.
I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.
I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.
If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.
What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.
If you love music and it requires hours of practice that can be boring, you can survive the boredom, you're not going to love it but you can survive the boredom because you're connected to something that excites you.
Everything is personal.
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