I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with - not only sight and boundary, but how one walks through a piece, and what one feels and registers in terms of one's own body in relation to another body.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.