You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.

I have very simple tastes really. I like to ride my bicycle and I like to spend time upstate where it's quiet and I can take time to think and dream about new projects and possibilities.

I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.

The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

While I've lived in cities for most of my adult life, I really prefer the quiet, boring, mundanity of the country. It's the best place for me to work, think, and invent.

As americans I think it's harder for us to have a relationship with opera because the access to it is so limited.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.