Become a possibilitarian..

A single conversation can change things..

I write songs by sitting around in bars, so drinking songs are a little obvious. It's surprising that I don't write entirely drinking songs, since I ….

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content..

Less bitching...more learning..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very ea….

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid..

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not..

Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over anything..

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes..

When it's your time, it is your time..

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money….

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

I love working with other people, and I love the fact that film is a collaborative industry and form of art. You're all working with each other and p….

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's tot….

When you create a movie, you create something in your image..

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensi….

Usually when a woman is 60, it's over..

I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrib….