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Eddie, in turn, tried out Alex's guitar and saw he was much better at that. For years after the band members became multi-millionaires following the release of their first albums and subsequent tours, Alex said he and Eddie's mother, Eugenia, would still ask them when they would give up their rock-and-roll careers, go to college and get jobs. Did not like the song "Dancing in the Street" and did not want it on the "Diver Down" album. Has said in interviews that, if up to him, he would never have put the song on the album, adding that the song "Isn't Van Halen".
Suggested in Van Halen's early days that Eddie give up singing lead vocals and for the band to hire David Lee Roth, saying that David had a great stage presence and it would be cheaper than having to constantly rent his P. Ironically enough, David failed an early audition to be the band's lead singer. Described his parents as different in their personalities and approaches. Said in an interview that his father, Jan Van Halen, was a happy-go-lucky, let's-have-a-drink-together type while his mother, Eugenia Van Halen, believed he and Eddie should focus on having a career where they could wear a suit and tie to work.
March Part owner of a music production company in Mckinney Texas with long time Nashville veteran K Shaffer, the write music for movies, TV shows, weddings and events. Holds a Masters degree in Creative Arts. Alex has been recording professional narrations for 6 years as a Voice Artist. January Alexandar Wagner is still continuing his education at columbia college and though his content on youtube and Genoa-Kingston High School is dwindling he continues to bring new content to the community on a weekly basis.
January Alexandar Wagner is still continuing his education at Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in producing. He is in preproduction for his first feature film which is an adaptation of his latest short, Avoiding Forever. The film is scheduled to start preliminary photography in June of Appeared in a television driving safety advertisment as a reckless driver in who was banned.
The second movie graphically portrayed Walkinshaw's character crashing his car into a small child, which left the child dead, and covered in glass and blood. Has been in several musicals including "Oliver! His real name is Alexander Sharoglazov. A huge fan of the cult horror movie "Scarecrows", he often casts the stars of that film, Ted Vernon and Richard Vidan in his movies.
Has said that Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" inspired him to become a director. When trying out for the parts of Bill and Ted, each actor was paired up with another. They were cast opposite what they tried out for. They became good friends and have collaborated on several film projects. He studied Film at college in New York City and starred in a number of plays whilst still a student.
Moved from London to St. Louis when he was 5. He has a brother named Stephen. Made his musical stage debut at age 10 in the St. Louis Opera production of "Oliver! Alex played one of the urchins. Appeared in a couple of Broadway musical productions as a teenager. His favorite character, that he played, was "Granny S. Alex's paternal grandparents were from Shelby, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana, respectively, while Alex's maternal grandparents were born in New York. Through his mother, Alex is a descendant of Francis Cooke c. Founded Southern California's So-Cal Speed Shop in , one of the first hot-rod builders and customizers in the US, and generally considered to be the shop that pretty much started the hot-rod craze that continues to this day.
Lost both his legs above the knees in a horrific accident during a race at EuroSpeedway in Germany on 15 September Was lucky enough to be in Dawn of the Dead as a zombie, while reporting from the set for MTV, can be seen as a lead zombie chasing the cast in the end mall sequence. Alex's last name is from her Dutch heritage. Her father's parents emigrated to the US in and became American citizens. Her father is first-generation American and is a dentist in North Carolina. She was a three-year varsity cheerleader at Cary Academy, a private prep school in Cary, North Carolina.
She graduated from high school from The University of North Carolina in She became engaged to be married when her boyfriend 'Jackson Douglas ' proposed to her during the taping of a "MADtv" skit. Was the original choice for Sookie St. James in "Gilmore Girls" The role was performed by 'Melissa McCarthy'. Was listed as a potential nominee on the Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actress category for her performance in the film Littleman , however, she failed to receive a nomination. Was heavily pregnant with her daughter Henrietta while filming on "Shameless"' season 3.
Her character Lou Deckner also became pregnant. Lou gave birth after events of episode 6, 4 months after Borstein gave birth herself. Her father was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Polish Jewish immigrants. Her mother is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant; she was born in Budapest, and moved to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a son named Barnaby Borstein Douglas on September 8th, He weighed in at 8 lbs. Child's father is her now estranged husband, 'Jackson Douglas '.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 39, a daughter named Henrietta Borstein Douglas on October 1, Her character Lou Deckner also became pregnant because of it. Her character reportedly was in a labor at the end of 6th episode. Borstein gave birth 4 months before this episode aired. Was discovered when agent Natasha Harrison and her partner, actor Marshall Napier, broke down outside her house. While her dad was helping change the tyre, she chatted to them and told them about a part in a film she was going for.
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She is a keen dancer dancer and has done and passed her intermediate rad ballet exam. She likes textiles and going to the theatre. Has two children, Kate Lamm and Sean Lamm. Ex-husband 'Robert Lamm' is a musician with the band 'Chicago'. They were dropped to recurring 6 months later and have yet to be seen on the show again. Hanged herself in her bedroom closet. Many people in the adult film industry suspect to this day that her death might have involved foul play.
The couple separated on 13 October Gave birth to her 1st child at age 38, a daughter named Salome Violetta Haertel' on March 28, Child's father is her now ex-2nd husband, Florian Haertel. June Reported as leaving "ER" because producers believe her character, icy surgeon Elizabeth Corday, has "run its course" and did not renew her contract. Interviewed in UK's Radio Times Magazine she said she had become "deeply unhappy" on the show and was aware she was being used less. July 18, Married for the 3rd time her longtime boyfriend 'Jonathan Stamp ' in Rome following a year-long engagement.
Who she played Melody Pond a. This lady has an amazing 4 different careers all running at once - actress, children's entertainer, presenter and newsreader!. Daughter of Academy Award winner 'Whoopi Goldberg'. Her father is Alvin Martin. Alex had her first child when she was only 16 years old.
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She remarried her husband in and has three children. She first appeared as an extra in The Color Purple with her mother. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son named Francois van Kempen in October Child's father is her husband, 'Simon van Kempen'. Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 32, a son named Johan van Kempen in November In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, cooking, rollerblading and traveling home to Chicago to visit her family.
She was a dancer for 14 years, taking lessons and eventually teaching beginning at age 12 at her aunt's dance studio in Illinois. She was inspired to pursue a career in acting after seeing another Latina actress, 'Rita Moreno ' , in West Side Story October 25, Married her longtime boyfriend Kyle Mark Johnson following a month-long engagement. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 29, a son named Levi William Johnson on July 20, Child's father is her husband, Kyle Mark Johnson. First album, "Introduction", went Platinum on December 10th after its release on November 24th February Left her record label by mutual agreement, but writing her own music and pursuing other projects.
October In July told David White of BBC Radio Cornwall, that she's been doing some song writing and is hoping to record an EP later in and will be releasing it independently, she's also doing a bit of travelling and is doing a clown course. She attended Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan where she studied journalism before dropping out to model full-time. Is the younger sister of fellow "Degrassi: The Next Generation" actress, 'Cassie Steele '. Alex appeared in Degrassi: The Next Generation in seasons as Angela Jeramiah Craig Manning's half sister , at the same time that her older sister Cassie was a lead in the show.
She is now a regular in the show as a completely different character, Tori Santamaria. Her title was stripped when it was discovered that she was working as an exotic dancer. Alex is an animal rights activist and spends her spare time rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing animals back into the wild.
A Vietnam war veteran, Alex drove a cab for ten years before he could amass enough money to make "Lunchmeat". His older sister is acclaimed costume designer 'Sophie De Rakoff' i. Dakota caught fire on July 5, and took two years to rebuild, reopening exactly two years later on July 5, , only to be sold to an unable-to-be named coffee company for an undisclosed amount. Alex quickly formed a strong friendship with lead singer Charles Costa, which led to his being asked to replace his previous management, Mi7.
Starting as an advisor and then becoming manager to King Charles, Alex was instrumental in the production of his sophomore album, Gamble for a Rose due out January 22, which was produced by Grammy-winning musician and songwriter Marcus Mumford, from Mumford and Sons. The name is a homage to the endearing nickname the members of King Charles gave him, Fig Roll, hence FR Management, and he is beginning to build his client roster beyond King Charles, though that will remain his top priority throughout the release of the forthcoming album as well as the tour to follow.
FR Management will handle musicians and actors, and will release some of the name talent that will be joining forces with him over the coming months. Dakota Lounge is credited by Foster the People as being the place where they "found the magic" in their band and committed to sticking together and within the next year had a deal and a hit single "Pumped up Kicks" and has enjoyed worldwide success ever since. Josh and the owner, Alex, remain close friend today. Acclaimed music video director who worked with various talents including Skyzoo, Talib Kweli, and Spike Lee. Producer, director, and cinematographer of documentaries focusing on the artistic culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alex Greenfield and wife, Penny Larson met in college and dated for twelve years before getting married. Film career began when he was only fifteen years old and was selected out of hundreds of filmmakers to join the Samsung Mobile Fresh Films program, where he produced a short film featuring actor 'Scott Cohen '. Thousands of films were submitted and only eight were selected to win this prestigious award in the student film category.
In October , his short film Meeting Mr. Williams was chosen as an official selection for the Queens International Film Festival. In December , his film Meeting Mr. Principal, in charge of Business Affairs for Piggycard. He contacted the film director Juan Antonio de la Riva to make him an interview for a schoolwork almost 1 year before his first successfully short-film, when he meet him in person during the awards of the short-film. Brother of 'Max Schenker'. Granted a masters degree in Directing from the American Film Institute. Stephen's stepfather, Walter, and his mother Yaneth, have always supported him in his pursuit to become a filmmaker.
When lightning almost struck Stephen on March 7, at Flushing Meadow Park, the terrified reactions from those around him inspired him to capture the chaos that plagues life on film.
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He was the historical documentalist assessor of the documentary Del roig al blau, and also one of the interviewers. Alex Jarus has appeared or in someway acted in every single one of his short films, except for "Boredom". Alex Jarus is an award-winning filmmaker. He preferred pirate stories and Westerns over more popular superhero comics. Has collaborated with 'Govind Chandran ' on a number of short film projects after meeting at University where they were put in a group together purely because they happened to be seated in the same row.
Shares the same first and last name with contemporary painter Alex Beard, but is not the same person. Attended North Carolina School of the Arts as the only high school student studying music composition at the time. This is normally a college program; only a handful of people in the history of the school have majored in music composition while still in high school. Theatrical producer and theatre owner with partner 'Vinton Freedley'. Aarons was active on Broadway as a producer from The theater, named from a conglomeration of "Al" for Alex and "Vin" for Vinton, was initially successful but like most houses was deeply impacted by the financial realities of the Great Depression.
The partners sold it in Son of director, 'Taylor Hackford' and 'Lynne Littman'. Stepson of Georgie Lowres and 'Helen Mirren '. Brother of 'Rio Hackford'. Former lead guitarist and keyboardist of Montreal band, Octopoid Grabber. Also played guitar in the bands Ganesha, Probe and Superfluous, the latter group under the pseudonym 'Integral O'Hara'.
After graduating from high school, he worked for a while at a rental video store where he could get as many new releases as he wanted. He used to have 'weekend movie nights' at home with his friends which made him popular. Appeared on TV for the first time in on a TV talent show, where he performed singing and dancing. During his childhood, he created a "group band" along with three of his neighbor friends named "Los Despeinaditos" - translated as "The Bad-Hair-Day Guys Band". They performed popular cover and original songs - written and choreographed by Henry himself - on local events, birthday parties, and beauty pageants.
At 17, he almost lost his life when he got stabbed by a mugger who tried to steal a pair of brand new sneakers he had on. He played Christopher Columbus in a middle-school play. As a kid, he wrote songs about love and deception. He used a tape recorder and made the 'music' with his mouth. He graduated from Punahou High School in Honolulu in He died shortly before his st birthday in His most prized possessions are two rare James Dean picture books he found in a vintage book store in New York City.
According to Alex the most surreal moment of his life was to be in New York City for his 21st birthday watching Wicked: The Musical on Broadway and being able to go backstage after the show for a private tour. Interned at a local radio station when he was in High School, where he developed a 1 hour show that was an in-depth look into global warming, which was aired several times on the station. From the age of 16 was the editor-in-chief for an online magazine, spending time interviewing various celebrities and musicians.
Alex is an avid hobbyist home-chef. He grows his own herb garden and enjoys cooking frequently for friends and family. Played with Jaco Pastorius at one time. He was one of three respected south Florida musicians to die in the summer of Zohn, Sadkin, and Pastorius. Co-produced the song "I want to know what love is" by Foreigner. His first gig in his band was in a mall where they were kicked out for noise violation and hid in the back hallways evading getting caught by the police for playing too loud.
Her stage name, based on her mother's last name, is pronounced "rih-go-yen" with the Y being silent. It is of Spanish origin. She has approximately 24 tattoos. Five are comic book-related, two are video game-related, and one is a dinosaur. I think in order to live a truly happy life one must create from within ones own desire for art and expression. Let what comes of that creation guide you to places that will teach you about yourself. Here I was trying to do something good for people, and they were turning around and polluting the land..
You should not have sent us these things wrapped in plastic'. I grew silent as I realized that playing God is not simple at all. One of the greatest things in my life is to hear of our fans' hardships and know they rose above them with the help of our music. What would a band be without a couple crazy fans? The real hardcore ones.
I'd be lost without them. Focus on your goals and dreams. It's important to have a passion for something. Find out what it is and make it your own. I had to be conscious every single day that I was independent of the government. I always had a pencil in my hand and had always been a competent artist and used to do covers for the university rag magazine. I was the person who brought Mars Attacks!
They were bubblegum cards I had as a kid. I developed Mars Attacks! It was a bit of a shame, but I think both the script that I wrote and the 'Tim Burton ' one suffered from not being enough like the bubblegum cards. I wouldn't want the kind of movies I do to become trendy. I've always hated trends and I would feel quite uncomfortable creating one. Nighttime is when truckers get talkative. It's lonely out here. Guys get on the radio and start telling each other stories. They're like little kids in a bunkhouse after the adults have put out the lights. Everybody is keeping each other company.
I'm one of the most devoted storytellers on the ice road, and I'll keep the other truckers entertained for hours. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a superhero and save people from bad things. Throughout my life, I've had the opportunity to be a real hero and I've had the opportunity to be a real ass, and I've taken that one, too!
You see trucks jackknifed in the snow and accidents that were probably unpreventable. There are plenty of better drivers out there than me, but I know enough to respect the weather and listen to the ice. I was born with something you can't buy and is very difficult to earn. It's called poetic license. I have a different understanding of life than you do yet.
We're just putting in time until the coffin gets built. As a matter of fact, we should build our own coffins. And If I get the time, I need to build my own coffin, just to prove my point. You make your own coffin and if you have a big house you make it into a coffee table. If you have a small apartment, you make it into a closet and you put it by the door and you hang your suit, coat, the stuff for the wedding or maybe for your funeral.
And every day when you walk by it, you give your coffin a pat. And you bring your day into perspective. And you'll have better days because of that. The one thing about the ice roads, you spend a lot of time by yourself. If you don't have the radio cranked up and your ear buds in or a TV turned on sucking one's brains out, then one gets to think about a lot of these things. The shortness of life is amazing to me. I dream in animation; it's like watching Saturday morning cartoons on the television, except you're asleep.
This next song goes out to anybody who's ever been told that the way that they think or the way that they feel is the wrong way to think or the wrong way to feel. Goes out to anybody who's ever been pushed down, held back, walked on Anybody who doesn't feel comfortable in their own skin, anybody It goes out to all of you! And the reason it goes out to all of you is because every single one of you is fucking beautiful. I've noticed that there's a lot of people in the world trying to tell other people that they're not beautiful. And I don't stand for that, I think that's bullshit.
Each and every single one of you are gorgeous, believe in yourselves. This song goes out to all of you. Never underestimate a girl's love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won't defend them to her death. Because it's not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It's the guys, the gals. People whom of which she has interacted with thanks to the band. That band might of saved her life, or just made her smile everyday.
That band has never broke her heart and has yet to leave her. No wonder she finds such joy in her music. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost. I always thought that's what's great about movies sometimes- the best movies have to be experienced; they can't just be written about.
Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place 's original footage]: If you had to watch all 40 hours, it would be like something out of A Clockwork Orange They'd have to prop your eyelids open. Kesey had an innate distrust of experts: In this case that meant stay away from a cameraman. Imagine how great it would have been if they had a real cameraman. But instead you get all the bonehead mistakes of the amateur. There are no establishing shots, the camera is always jiggling, and none of them had a particularly good eye.
On a day-to-day basis, I like Lance. But over time one of the things I learned is that liking somebody is not the same thing as approving of what they do. I was definitely drawn into Lance's orbit and I became a fan as I acknowledge in the film. I liked him and I liked going along for the ride We put the film aside and waited 'til the smoke cleared and then I got a call from 'Lance Armstrong ' and he said all this is true, I've been lying to you and I apologize. We started to talk about him sitting down and trying to make it right. So that film became a new film [The Armstrong Lie ] and I had to put myself in the middle to explain what had happened.
I realized that I'd shot something pretty interesting which was really the anatomy of a lie. I have been spiritually lucky and financially unfortunate to have been a freelancer most of my life. It's not easy making a living goring sacred cows. He did very little to direct the actors. Can you imagine TWO people playing poker? And everyone would sit around and watch them, the two worst poker players in the world. They would always play draw poker and Bud would always look at Lou's cards and no matter what he drew, he could not outdraw Lou.
But he'd draw anyway! They were just playing to play. They didn't care about winning or losing. There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones. My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.
No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in advance, so you can do that, which is an important point. Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.
The hardest part of 'Game of Thrones' is there is so much incredible talent bouncing off the walls that you'll actually miss some of them, and not getting it is very intimidating. It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then. I don't know if anyone in the U. Martin wrote and what's on the show. It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in.
There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene. For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it. I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making that Hollywood would be making, and then I went on to 'Game of Thrones,' and it was just like, everything I've been waiting to do was handed to me by really nice people. You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones. Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings. Puppetry and cinematography aren't that different in my eyes They, at their core, are both kinda magic. Nobody can do for little children what grandparents can do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle dust over the lives of little children. I had such a great affection and love for playing snooker. I suppose, in a way, it's like a drug. I felt that, at the age of 32, I had become a man. It's a totally different style than his other films. You look at it and say "It's timeless.
People will look at it in years. I don't think of art as therapy either. It's an unhealthy way to think about it. Sometimes when you go to film festivals, people can kind of joke around and say "it's that person's therapy lesson" and I understand what they're saying.
I try to not let that cynicism preclude me. When it comes to things that are close to your heart, I think about it more as a conversation - an ongoing, long conversation that I'm having with an audience. Todd Field said that sometimes cliches are good because you're coming in with the baggage and you can use that or choose to not use that. I thought that that was interesting. There is a tremendous amount of special effects in Meet Me in Montenegro Linnea [co-director 'Linnea Saasen' ] did all of it. We worked on it for 4 years every single day.
We edited in hostels - it was a long editing process. There was a lot of re-shooting, and we put in pieces of our own lives in it. It's like we weaved together an Icelandic sweater. The flaws are part of the character, but that's our sweater. That's the cool thing about Montenegro, you can spend five to 10 euros and get a beautiful fish, salad and a beer.
To find a place to stay, you just drive and find someone holding up a sign that says apartment. We shot on the cliffs in Montenegro. We got to go to all these underground clubs in Berlin that Linnea [co-director 'Linnea Saasen' ] knew of before I met her. It's not in our personalities to be actors, but the plus side was getting to travel to all of these places. What are we going to do? Along the way, we were talking about making this film about our experience. I had money for the first time in my life at that moment because I had sold a script to a studio and I was like, that can get us started, I will put up a little bit and we can shoot the beginning, then we'll see how it goes.
We basically rented a little apartment in Sarajevo and started tacking up ideas. It was really exciting and fun - for [Linnea], it was her first time as a filmmaker, so I got to collaborate with somebody that's bringing a completely different perspective. Also, she's a dancer, a performance artist and European, which was [a] really interesting to create a romance that wasn't just [from my point of view]. If you've seen Sexless , you're filming your relationships, but it's really from your perspective and you're really controlling the whole thing, so you're giving into the chaos a little bit when you're saying, "We're both going to contribute.
It's not going to be one person's objectification. It's going to be these conversations about what is transpiring. It rolled on for three-and-a-half years until we were finally done. A Hollywood movie could never choose all those locations. Even though it was exhausting going to all those locations, it was what would make it special, to have an adventure like Wrong Numbers years ago. I always thought people would want to go on a journey through Austin like this right now, to sit in the back of the car and see all these places.
This was the same spirit. I don't feel actors at heart, but we knew that we could cast actors to play the other roles and shoot them very traditionally. In four weeks, we could shoot 'Rupert Friend' and 'Jennifer Ulrich ' all over Berlin, and go to the Kit Kat sex clubs and all of these things, and get their storyline.
Our story had to take place over an extended period of time and [more exotic] locations, so if we could play the parts, we would have the advantage of going to Montenegro and film for weeks on end and then take time and edit it, because we can give up our apartments and live down there. Then we can all move to Los Angeles and stay with my family there while we shoot some LA stuff, and then we go back to Berlin.
We could never hire an actress and say, "Be available for the next three years while we shoot little pieces and think about it. We did tests with ourselves and we watched it, we edited a little bit together and we thought, "Let's do it.
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That's what I thought was going to happen. So I take this vacation to Berlin and meet Linnea, and we fall madly in love on my last night there. And she asks me if I want to take this train ride to the Balkans, and I say, "Yes! So we travel down there, and it's really terrific. Then she gets the news that she got the axe from art school. She was on the waiting list, but it was supposed to this really easy thing, but now it was not going to happen. At that same time, I got a call from the studio head - and it's bad news when the studio head calls you.
My phone didn't even work; I had to check in to this tiny little hotel to take the phone call. And basically they said, "We decided that we don't want to pull the trigger on your film this year. So we went to a hotel in Sarajevo, wrote down and tacked up all the ideas on a wall, and then went back to Berlin. But we thought for our story, since it took place for so long and over several countries, if we could play these parts, we could have something really special. We could go to the cliffs of Montenegro and shoot, and then have flashbacks from three years ago, and use some of our photographs from real life to add some elements of real time, and we could go to Berlin and shoot in these underground clubs I can be very cowardly, and fearful of the world.
Over the years, I think part of my writing movies was writing characters who would do the things that I would never have the nerve to do. And I did have that thought that, my God, I've been living in Los Angeles for seven years and my biggest experience has been sitting on the 10 in traffic. I would joke with people that my next movie was going to be called General Meeting, because that's all I seemed to do.
I had one meeting with a guy who had been working as a producer for twenty years. And he said, "I've been working here for twenty years, and we've never made a movie. We're in the development process, but we've never actually made a movie. And coming to Berlin and meeting Linnea, who has a much more courageous willingness to take chances, really inspired me.
You kind of feel like you have this closed-off connection to the world. And then all of a sudden you're with this amazing person, in a place you never thought you'd go, and you just feel so lucky to be alive. And it's scary to do that. You've got a lot of connections and reasons to do things the way they've always been done. And sometimes you just have to say, don't be such a pussy. Just go for it. So it's nice to be able to dramatize that. But her role grew and grew throughout the process. When she began, she had never edited anything.
But she went over to Lynda. And like a week later, she started cutting some scenes, and the DP and I were on the opposite side of the room cutting, and in no time she was cutting scenes that were way faster than our cuts, and better! In no time at all, she became the main editor. And then all of her drawings are incorporated into the film; that was all after the fact. And then at some point our DP had to go back, and she was shooting B-roll. And she did all the special effects. It may look like that movie has special effects, but all the skies that look so nice, all those colors are all fake.
We were shooting in grey skies in the middle of winter. I think it's hard for her to see how much she became such an incredible voice of the film during this time. That was really fun to see. There was just so much material and so many side characters. Even characters that only have one line in the film-they probably have several scenes that you're not seeing.
So as we kind of shaped it into a movie, that's when it kind of got that forward momentum that Linnea was talking about. When we started getting feedback from people. Or go into a museum and just start very quietly filming, and the sound guy has head phones on like he's listening to an IPad, he's actually doing the sound over there in the corner, and then all of a sudden you have a really, you know, fresh scene - it would take a huge budget to do these things.
It is surprising that with some small woodscrews and pieces of coral painted brown, how easy it is to make small children look like reindeer. When I heard it I put 'Road Runner' on the record player. What a guitarist - totally revolutionised the way the instrument was played with that loose sexy rhythm. I adore the flamboyance of 'Freddie Mercury' , the riffs and beats of 'Led Zeppelin' and what 'Pete Townshend' "did with his legs as he held his guitar".
I prefer singles to LPs. Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away.
But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover. No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance. I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. A lot of food criticism has a similar flavour to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast. The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me. Glasgow's not a media centre. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that.
You do feel quite alone, in a good way. Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it. Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain.
It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is. You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time. Relevancy is a phrase I can't really comprehend. The people who struggle with it most are people who define their selves by their age. When I look at the front row of audiences and I see they're thick with people in their mid-teens, I'm fascinated by it because I think, 'Wow, you can't be here because you bought our first record because you would have been five'.
While you may come to a point in your life when you have consciously rejected belief systems, you still have the spiritual urge or desire to have it all explained to you. There are various different ways in which the landmarks of our life change. It happens throughout your life. You can trace that to the very beginning, right back to 'Bill Haley ' who invented rock'n'roll. Even in the psychedelic era 'Timothy Leary' was a middle-aged man who probably had more influence than 'Roger Daltrey'.
It's not the age, but it's the vividness of ideas. If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway. If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people. I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there. I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it.
I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture. What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting. What I like in comedies are really two things: When you ram ships, hurl glass containers of acid, drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders, launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks, and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are - without a doubt - a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be.
I want people who can make music and not just play notes. In a pit, you're in a bunker with people for hours and weeks on end. You want to get along with them, but also be inspired by musicality that is at such a high level that you respect them and want to make music with them. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that. I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes.
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I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: For the first few weeks of rehearsal, we tend to sound like a really, really bad Rush tribute band. I tried to get into the heads of the animators that would have created my character and think like they would have had me think, move like they would have had me move, It was like I was literally drawing myself right onto the celluloid. Acting is a lot of fun, it's like Halloween every day.
You get a costume, a new face, a new identity but at the same time, you've got to be yourself. If you're putting on a fake personality, there's no way you're going to be able to keep up both that personality and also play the role you're supposed to play. You have to be comfortable with yourself. To tell one's own story, culture, struggles as well as triumphs is the ultimate act of empowerment and liberation. I went to the front office at Universal and asked to be released from my contract. They thought I was crazy. But I thought, "If this is my big break, then I'm not going very far.
In a way we feel we failed her by not banging those doors down. In our community, she was an icon. I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood. There were times I was thinking, 'What am I doing, this is crazy'. I was scared because I had no money and no ticket home. That is the time when everyone else packs up and leaves. But I remembered everything my grandfather taught me about the work ethic before he died.
He was brought up out in the bush and his advice was 'put your head down and keep working, son, and you'll get what's coming to you'. You just push through. The living legends I've had the good fortune of working with have all unfortunately passed on, starting with John Carradine. Four years after working with Lucille Ball, she died. Shortly after meeting Carl Perkins, he too passed away. Now; as far as my not getting the job in the musical 'The Capeman' My parents didn't allow me to get an agent until Year 7, although I had an interest in show business for some time.
I knew that was the kind of movie I wanted to make. From there, it became this fun little maze of what other kind of movies you can fold into this - you can take a very sad, emotional drama and find yourself talking about a cheap horror movie like Carnival of Souls and realizing it's more connected to those other films than they seem.
The common thread here is these really interesting women stories - these unique, threatening and occasionally frightening stories about the troubles of broken women. That's the driving force behind almost all of Fassbinder's films. So immersing in a retrospective gives you time to marinate in this theme of women under extreme duress.
But then you look at "Carnival of Souls", or 'Roman Polanski ' 's Repulsion , and it takes the form of exaggerated gothic horror.
Then you look at 'Robert Altman ' 's Images , which straddles both lines and becomes a fascinating text of its own. In his body of work, at the time of that film and now, that one sort of sticks out as this quasi-horror experiment. Then I was also thinking of 'Woody Allen' 's Interiors , which is as quiet a drama as you can have. I wanted this movie to live in this cinematic world of broken women.
When I hear about the titans of the industry fighting for film, the conversation is always about 35 or even 65mm. Knowing that the precious little 8mm and 16mm siblings are safe as well give me great comfort, as I know that the formats I rely on to make my films will continue to exist. I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
Parties don't thrill me. I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon. I think it's this insidious pool where nearly everyone lives in fear. But socially it's disgusting. I wish they'd just run all the cunts out. I was disillusioned by [Hollywood] at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: I've heard I'm called a bad boy, or difficult-maybe that's because I don't take any bullshit.
I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration -- since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business -- he is playwright, director, editor, and artist at once. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare to that at home. My wife will give me a back hander. When you grow up without many friends, your friends are movies, so I'm absolutely elated.
I was certainly a dork growing up, so this [a nominee for Murderball] is a total dream. I wanted to make movies all my life. Can we just remember that Marks out of Marks and Spencer was a refugee? All made huge contributions. Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Learn more at Author Central.
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