Aw, man, is that the only adjective they know? It`s like every time I make a goddamn movie, the word quirky" is hauled out in the American reviews. Now I see it`s being applied to Wes Anderson, too. All of a sudden, his films are quirky. And Sofia Coppola...
I never talk to actors as a group. Only one at a time. I talk to them about being their characters. Never, ever, about the meaning of the scene. I don`t want the actors overladen with research, so they grow stale.
I feel so lucky. During the late 70`s in New York, anything seemed possible. You could make a movie or a record and work part time, and you could find an apartment for 160 bucks a month. And the conversations were about ideas. No one was talking about mon...