"The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed."

“In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.”

“I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role.”

“Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.”

“I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.”

“I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'”

“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2004). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, Crown Pub