Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
My compulsion is to create things.
I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
When you have a play, you have to be on every night.
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.
There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.