All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.