The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we’re in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
We went with the St. Lawrence Experience which is run by Joe Babbitt who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives and we’ve been going back since. We’ve been back three times now.
There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let’s get on with it.
I’m afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television yob newspapers and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad school police church who used to set the standards now it’s tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I’ll play in bands and record and play songs with other people but for me it’s a form of expression that all I need is me. I don’t need cameras or agents I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
There are nuclear weapons in China Iran Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum when she could go out with someone who’s successful.
The American people are not just being taxed to death they’re being taxed after death. But no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.