Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics...
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other wa...