There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.