Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.
On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, ‘Look, I’m interested in Ottoman things, and I’m not afraid of it, and I’m doing something creative.’
That’s why I love doing television because it’s something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what’s going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
I am playing the character of a grandmother in ‘Doctor Don’ which is completely different from my previous roles. My character is dashing, carefree and has a bindaas mindset. She loves to live her life happily.
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I’ve had time to make the shorts that I made previous to ‘Hereditary’ and to kind of build these movies in my head.
Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think it’s really important.
I think millennials are a generation that’s a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it’s important to work on the craft than the project.
I timed my previous wife’s pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan’s 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don’t just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan’s 50th birthday.
There’s been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I’d heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
