Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?
I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.
Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.
Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.