Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.

Whenever there's chaos, there's ambiguity, and where there's ambiguity, there's fear. And fear gets manipulated.

[Making Ordinary People] was a wonderful experience. Tremendous. I haven't seen it since. It belongs to the public now; it no longer really belongs to me.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.