As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact wit….

I feel that silence is the greatest word, ever. When you don't talk, people begin to read things into you or you become what they long for. When you ….

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more danger….

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people..

I don't offend anyone, I don't use anyone, I don't exploit anyone..

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through….

The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks..

Love comes from the strangest places..

I remind myself that we need to continue to do the things we believe in and be even more vocal about asking people to do more. This might be my Scorp….

That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going t….

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table..

Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fres….

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there..

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer..

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right..

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box o….

Ewan McGregor is a very genial and entertaining man, and Pierce Brosnan is possibly the nicest man in the world. Actually, it was quite a genial set ….

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I th….

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love..