"Towards the end of my time at St Martins, the ceramics department bought this machine that made teapots and I can remember thinking it was so pathetic. Instead of expecting people just to decorate something that is already there – moulding people to fit in with the system, to make it look pretty – what you should be doing with arts education is giving people the tools so that they can invent a totally new world of their own. Rather than fitting in with your shitty system that doesn’t seem to work anyway."
John Waters is glad that people feel comfortable coming out of the closet. And yet: “I wish some gay people would go back in. We have enough”
Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'
"[On prayer] “I think the behavior and the activity will sort of lead to something good. Anything that sort of gets me into a place of something less than self-obsession and gets me into a place of some humility, not even acknowledging a higher power, but that other people exist and they’re not here as an extension of my world - I think that part of the reason I got involved in journalism is I just - I love the stories of other people. I mean, everybody’s got a story to tell."
TOKYO SONATA @ NYFF - Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
