The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
There's a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
We all give up great expectations along the way.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
