A lot of people, especially young people, have always felt that intuition to refuse. Most of that impulse has been managed as ‘art movements,’ so you have the surrealists, the modernists, the beats, hippies, punks, slackers, etc. These are in general people who feel like, Jesus, anything is better, even self-destruction is preferable to simply finding my place in such a sterile world.
“I was born and raised in L.A. I didn’t understand what an unusual place it is until I left for a while and lived somewhere else, Europe mostly. Then I saw L.A. as the ever-transforming landscape, the end of America both geographically and metaphorically, and a psychological blank slate that lends itself to whatever people can imagine — which is why it’s a perfect place to make movies.”
Steve Erickson