Marks of Identity is among other things the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
No it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society as I see it is advertising.
The spiritual element the really important part of religion has no concern with Time and Space temporary mundane laws or conduct.
There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.
Concentration of executive power unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances let's say fighting world war two it's an assault on democracy.
Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money pay for food and put bread on the table.
But I don't think that poetry is a good to use a contemporary word venue for current events.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
It is not to be disguised that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace which they would effect is superficial false and temporary.
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative a contemporary American vernacular.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going 'Ooh I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing learning unlearning initiating long-term artistic dialogues making connections creating covens and getting temporary shelter from the storm.