A. Johnson
A. Johnson
punishment people trouble
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
move question
The question is now when they are going to move him to another room.
burned careful investors market seen stake thinking
You have to be careful about prejudging this - I've seen so many investors burned at the stake thinking things like 'Value is about to come back,' ... Let the market tell you what to do. Don't tell the market what to do.
validation taste poetic
I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste,
interesting ifs something-interesting
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
dirty kind belgrade
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
my-favorite
All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.
fixing time-travel appeals
That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.
fun liars writing
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!
letting-go long the-end-of-the-day
I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.
goes-on if-i-stay plans
It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.
style kind film
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.
giving-up dont-give-up advice
The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.
giving-up writing editing
The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.