I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.