Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
return losing consciousness
I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.
opposites directors remember
It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.
joy cameras actors
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.
years two directors
As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for two years.
elephants white brilliant
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
mean ideas way
When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.
pages hardest
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.
stories movement way
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
lines failing chorus
I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.
book writing years
I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.
ideas philosopher moral
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.
thinking way moral
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".
mean responsibility thinking
I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.
beautiful philosophy sublime
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.