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.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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.

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.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.