Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.

Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.

Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.