I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pig….

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinkin….

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?.

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving f….

I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a ques….

We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do..

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy..

Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't h….

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise..

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere wit….

Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime..

Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to t….

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way throu….

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..

That's the main thing you have to have... trust..

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to ….

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own ….

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished..

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try..

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the incr….

For me, creating the clothes of Givenchy is the way to make my tribe. It's related to religion, too, because it's people trying to find identity - th….