Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
I'd love to live forever except the person that made this game board has a tendency to occasionally knock some pieces off
I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.
There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors.
When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
I'm a survivor. And I say this with so much pride I could burst into a million tiny pieces at your feet.
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.
We're going to need a definitive quantum theory of gravity, which is part of a grand unified theory - it's the main missing piece.
I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
