Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have.
I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.
I am desperate and vulnerable. . . . I am always terrified. . . . Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.
Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.
The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
You gotta fight for your right to vote!