Material Driven Quotes

I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.

The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the experiment, when it's always the opposite - any "experimentation" is dictated by the material.

Really, I am entirely material driven. If a project appeals to me, I will try to find the right writer and director. And that may be someone I've worked with before, or it may not. It may be a woman, or it may not.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

Art should be born from the materials.

Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.