The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.