It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.