Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.