My dream would be to be like Tina Weymouth from Talking Heads. Her style and everything about her, she's just the coolest human being.
I don't normally make documentaries. I'm a drama director. I've made a few short docs, but I don't like talking heads or 'voice of God' narrators.
In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.
I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.
When I left Tampa Bay, I felt like if my career ended at that point, I'd be okay.
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
'So Much More Than This' is about just getting tangled up in all of the drama and stuff that really does not matter and probably won't matter in, like, three months.
I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal.
Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.
GamerGate is really a sexist temper tantrum. That's kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it's kind of what it feels like, right? They're going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They're attacking anyone who supports women.
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.
I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where 'anything might happen.'
When I left the Treasury, there was a poll that showed - and I don't remember the numbers exactly right - something like 90% of the people were against TARP. It prevented a disaster, but you don't get credit for a disaster that people don't see.
I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
I just like tattoos.
