I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey.

What is nothing to you, can be love to me

Genius is both the sail and the wind

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.