We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.

Sometimes two people find each other with broken foundation, and they build something together as a team to make a foundation that is indestructible. - AK Brown

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony.

He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.