I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift...

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills. Art is a vast democracy of habit.

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks, in fact are.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.