I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
I love so many directors. I love David O. Russell. I love David Fincher, I love Alexander Payne and Jane Campion and my aunt. Spike Jonze. There are just so many amazing directors.
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.