My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!
I love to crochet. I have my own line of yarn and donate half my proceeds to St. Jude Children's Hospital.
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.
If singing weren't happening, then yeah, I definitely would still be working hard at karate. I already have some teaching diplomas in it so would've continued to do that and maybe eventually had opened my own club! Maybe one day I still can.
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding.
Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.
I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.
When I do my own makeup, I always start with Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer.
Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.
After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.
