A Quote by Nick Cave
I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
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The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.
There are many things that have stayed consistent. But the biggest change, of course, is technology, the way it's used, the way films are shot, the format that they're shot in, and the way films, of course, are edited. It's very different than it was in the past.
The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.
I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.
Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.
The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.
I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.
Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.
I've never made films for children. That's why children like my films. Nobody wants to be treated as a baby.
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I don't watch my own past films: when I watch them, I find they don't work very well, because I have changed. If I continue to make films, in fact, it is because I always want to repair my films. My inner rhythm has changed; I have changed. I have changed my way to film.
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