Quotes

A film is a series of images and sound. It's a statement. It conveys a message that is supposed to create a reaction. As long as I have something to say I will say it using this medium and in my own way and in a monochromatic or in a multicolored form.

Old Nick is my name, Old Nick Peterson. As a recording artist, it has been my name since 1983, but in America, ASCAP, the society of authors and composers registered a Jazz band with the same name, ignoring the rules. It's still hell for one of the 5 devils: Yours truly. As we know, there are 4 David Bowie(s), 20 Nina Simone(s), 3 Lady Gaga(s), 12 Beyoncé(s), 5 Taylor Swift(s) and 36 Beatles.

Music is an art form. It doesn't have to be big and commercial. It's the ability of one human to feel alive and communicate this sentiment to another (human or animal). It's just something that one does.

Old Nick. The name has been in use and registered since 1983. In the last few years, a jazz band, a heavy metal band and a guy with long hair and a cape called themselves Old Nick. Old Nick is not an occasional name used by Nick Peterson. occasional on 27 albums since 1983! All albums are signed by both Old Nick and his alter ego Virtual Alien AKA Nick Peterson. Show business is an over saturated jungle and the haters will do everything to belittle and remove its competitors.

In my latest album Remove Your Face my singing in the title track has been described as a 'group of headless chickens shrieking and feeding inside a farm' adding 'somewhere, anywhere like Ohio'.

Yes, spot on! That's precisely what it was. The story of the song is about a farmer in Ohio. What's wrong with farming in Ohio?

The hardest part of the media and show biz world is to ignore everyone because everyone will ignore you.

I cannot call myself an artist but a content creator. I do not direct films I process files into an interactive presentation. I want to trigger a reaction: positive or negative, as long as I can move or shake an audience.

In the end it is for the best as one's own obsession and misdirection might not to be right. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Can I win the Oscar for the "worst film ever made"? After all if a highly pix elated, gangsta-rapper short film with dialogue and mass killings -some real- can receive over one billion views on YouTube within days I ought to receive a trophy of some sort.

My films are just an illustration of a thought or a story that I have lived and would like to convey it to someone. The films can be viewed or heard from the middle, the end or backwards and in reverse.

The definition of a "film" -and in the Hollywood sense- is a fiction -part fiction- something out of the ordinary. So who would want to see badly dressed people eating appalling food with their boring and suicidal life on the screen? That's the real world and we already pay too much for it.

A film is is not about writing, its content or even if it is entertaining, as everything can be. It's about the data and a data is here to multiply and invade the binary and the quantum system of communication. It was already the same in the celluloid and radio days.

I only exist in relation to my receiver's end, real or virtual. We cannot exist otherwise. A country cannot exist without another one recognizing its right to exist.