I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.
Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you.
I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.
I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work; they want flex and time for family too.
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.
That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.
I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."
The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.
If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.
I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.
My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."
I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.
I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.
Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.
