When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to — Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.
I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. If the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. It's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. You feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.
I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.