I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.
If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.
While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.
I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.
I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.
I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.