All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.
My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
