I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.

I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.

I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.

Dance is so fascinating and I like collaborating with people a lot.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

One time we saw some hookers but when we got closer we realized it was Motley Crue.

I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

The crowd is made of little gods, and there is still no heaven.

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.