Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.
You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
Content is a glimpse.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.
When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.
Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.