Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.
Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'
That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.
Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.
The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.
If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
I liked school. I was happy enough there, I think.
