Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
I think directors who care about their work should be invested.
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.
If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.
Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
