What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.
I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
The reflexive allergy to L. A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.