I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Time is Money, I am No Ones Honey, Trust Me. I can Make It Dollars Every Second.

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel?

I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

I love it when my quotes are blown up really big!

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!