"The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone."

“The beginning is always today.”

“By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.”

“Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.”

Source : "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

“No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so. . . . [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge.”

“Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.”

“I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.”

“As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by, or to seek out. It was always impressed upon me that making something well crafted, something respected, was the most important thing to do with your life, and I've tried to do that where I can in my field.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.”