Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with traged….

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion..

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts..

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was workin….

Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it..

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?.

Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad..

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbli….

The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a….

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never..

Complete control can be the death of a work..

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do..

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't w….

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple ….

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're very alone. You just have th….

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war..

From my own experience in dealing with the Nazi-grandpas, who have now clearly made a return, I would recommend a bit of fundamental imperturbability..

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul..

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and r….

‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet..