I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.
The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.
If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.
People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.
The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.
People are so complex that you can't possibly know anybody in 90 minutes.
You can't possibly spend a lifetime with anybody and know them.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. One transformed millions of acres of uncultivated land into fertile farms, while the other furnished the transportation which carried the crops to distant markets.
The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that aside; it's not worth thinking about when I'm there. My agenda as an artist doesn't go away when I teach. It actually gets intensified.
Endurance is patience concentrated.
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.