To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
Art is literacy of the heart
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.
What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories?. . . Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.