If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn`t give a fuck about the punch line.
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it`s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
[On Meeting David Blane]: "The first time I hung out with him, he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven [inside], and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees, or something like that, and he stayed in it f...
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
