I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.
Objectivity? I always have an objective.
Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
It's easier being a judge than a competitor. As a judge, you don't have any risks. That makes it much more enjoyable.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
Less opinion, more perspective.
If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.
I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.
When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because we would include a lot of horrible material and would need a fresh pespective. They would look at us and say, 'Are you out of your minds? You can't include that!'
I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what I want to say... is so obvious 'cause that's not my job. My job is just to give a point of view, not more than that.
Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.
At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches.
It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
We're not a band that takes any kind of political stance. That's not what we're about as Priest. But we're observers of what's going on around us in the world.
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
An economist always shows two sides to the same coin and a politician pretends that the coin has just one side.
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.
I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
I like my stories once removed.
To be honest, it's hard when you're knee-deep in the trenches of an industry to see it how others see it.
