Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater..

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It i….

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance..

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things..

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people..

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny..

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subj….

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself..

Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act..

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium..

If you think too much in the music you are too late..

I try to make each film a different film..

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composi….

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be..

Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the ta….

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock..

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and th….

I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. ….

You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great p….

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in th….