Metallic Quotes

(on how he came up with the idea of "The Terminator") "I would see these images of a metallic death figure rising Phoenix-like out of fire, I woke up and grabbed a pencil and paper and started writing. When I originally got the idea for Terminator, I was sick, I was broke, I was in Rome, I had no way to get home and I could barely speak the language. I was surrounded by people I could not get help from. I felt very alienated and so it was very easy for me to imagine a machine with a gun. At the point of the greatest alienation in my life, it was easy to create the character."

The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the "Blonde on Blonde" album. It`s that thin, that wild mercury sound. It`s metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That`s my particular sound. I haven`t been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly I`ve been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.