I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

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.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

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

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.