That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.