I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when you make a mistake, pretend it's ritual." It's beautiful!

I really love country music, just this idea of three chords and the truth.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

I think my favorite Rolling Stones song is "No Expectations." I always think and talk through songs.

I often really like to play with documenting my performances cinematically. Cinematic documentation is much more interesting than the performance itself.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

When you start a new project, no matter if it's a movie like Enigma or an album like Goddess, you are always learning something. While I search, I find something new.

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.