If I see an ending, I can work backward.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves