We are not here for any positions but for a responsiblity.
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.
Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you. . . Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.
Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in kind.
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
The lessons learned on a pure practical production standpoint were immense. It instilled a faith that you can accomplish what you want if you just believe and stick together and continue to work at it. In that sense, it gives me the confidence to go into the next project with the belief that we can do it. This was an experiment in whether you can find a film without a singular conceit.