Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.