Understanding Quotes
[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.
- Jon Brion

[Being of a certain age made things clearer.] I'm 48, that's helped enormously... I have a much fuller understanding of relationships than I did when I was 20. A central thing about the relationship between Stanley and his wife Martha [played by Emily Watson] is that they don't have a kid. Arthur Burns, who they are trying to obliterate, has a family. I could never have written that relationship without an understanding of what it means to actually have a family, and the incredible emotional pull that that has on you.
- Nick Cave

Page 394 of 395