I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

People are scared man, they're scared of the void.

I think that the Internet is really cool because a lot of young feminists don't feel like they have to reinvent the wheel.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.