The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick interview.
We live in a time where the think is perceived and weight more important than the feel. All artists, to be considered worthy, must now be graduates of the likes of Yale. Pure conceptual art is a by product of this movement. I can even theorize that robots can become artists if they are programed to output conceptually. I am not against conceptual art, but it must be combined with the feel if it's to touch on our human emotion. We survive on the feel.
Also on the amount of painstaking research that went into his films:
What kind of research do you have going on right now?
The first step has been to read everything I could get my hands on about Napoleon, and totally immerse myself in his life. I guess I must have gone through several hundred books on the subject, from contemporary nineteenth-century English and French accounts to modern biographies. I've ransacked all these books for research material and broken it down into categories on everything from his food tastes to the weather on the day of a specific battle, and cross-indexed all the data in a comprehensive research file. In addition to my own reading, I've worked out a consultant arrangement with Professor Felix Markham of Oxford, a history don who has spent the last thirty- five years of his life studying Napoleon and is considered one of the world's leading Napoleonic experts. He's available to answer any questions that derive from my own reading or outside of it. We're also in the process of creating prototypes of vehicles, weapons, and costumes of the period which will subsequently be mass-produced, all copied from paintings and written descriptions of the time and accurate in every detail. We already have twenty people working full time on the preparatory stage of the film.
This film was sadly never made, due to budget. But there is a book about it.
She was preparing for the first issue of her new magazine, which she has named Rookie. As it turns out, Pratt (who started her own Web site, xoJane.com) is not officially involved, although she will appear on the contributors’ page as “fairy godmother.”
