There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.