You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.