You write a scene, and it works or it doesn’t. It’s immediate.
NICK CAVENo wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
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And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
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I’m an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American – blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.
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When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
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That’s what we [outsiders] feel America is really about – the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right – when it’s probably something quite different.
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I’m not in the business of telling people what to do. I’m much more in the business of describing things, situations and stuff like that and leaving them out there, and you can make up your minds about them.
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I don’t really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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The problem with books, now that I’ve written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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I have a particular dislike for children’s films. I’m way past the novelty aspect.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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Stars have their moments then they die.
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It’s a reduction of things.
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