All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

Your calling helps you to have goals

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

People are going to think I'm crazy.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.