Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.