“You're talking words like 'disintegration' and 'destruction'... I converted the video to a very high-speed pushed film stock. That way the digital noise starts to talk to the film grain. I wanted this... organic mass to bubble up there on the screen.”
“I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.”
“If you’re out there you’re vulnerable. People prefer to disappear in life, to repress their personality. That’s not living. It’s dying. I see them al over the place, the walking dead.”
“The Beatles exist apart from my self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.”
“I think Wenders and I stay together because I seem to be able to translate a lot of Wim's dreams and the travelling shots are because his stories are a lot about travelling, communication, distances - a lot of his stories play that way, so we end up trying to get something moving.”
“Usually, I just play myself. Whatever psychological traumas or conflicts I'm going through at the time I try to put into the role. Sometimes it's quite a feat to pull off, but sometimes it works. If it doesn't correspond to the dilemmas of the character, then I don't do the film.”
“Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad - ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor.”