Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.

Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.

It's just, it's fun to stay in the game.

I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.