We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.