There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.
Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.
Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.