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Art simply can’t be stopped.
There's not a lot of flash about me.
Each person has a literature inside them.
You know, all kinds of people inspire me.
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.
If you say a word often enough it becomes you.
Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
I have never been in a violent movie or television show.
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Over time, my students have gotten richer and more educated.
I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.
If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.
I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.
I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.
I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.