Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.
I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about allowing the powerless to tell their own story.
Can I - do I have to be obsessed with it and proceed from that? Not always. But when I'm on top of my game, I definitely think about the way that the world sees me and the way that the world thinks about painting. You must.
It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.
I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.
Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.