Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!