What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

Hope is a gaze on a higher power to meet our every need.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

Directing is like putting together a collage.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

We're all alone in this world.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.