There is no progress without product.
Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains
You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding
Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.
I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline
This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions. . the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.
The kind need kindness most of all.
I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?