Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Truman Capote: More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Truman Capote: I have 94 per cent recall of all conversation. I tested it myself.
Truman Capote: [to Perry Smith] We're not so different as you might think.
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me.
As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here?