My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.