My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
When love is gone, there's always justice.
Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.