We have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.