Artisan Quotes

I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them. You need to be there to make yourself understood; you can`t just tell people what to do from the end of a telephone line. My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature.

I know. It`s all so . . . independent. I`m so sick of that word. I reach for my revolver when I hear the word `quirky.` Or `edgy.` Those words are now becoming labels that are slapped on products to sell them. Anyone who makes a film that is the film they want to make, and it is not defined by marketing analysis or a commercial enterprise, is independent. My movies are kind of made by hand. They`re not polished -- they`re sort of built in the garage. It`s more like being an artisan in some way.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.