Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

Don’t be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

I can’t think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group…If a child in their...

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty

The life of the arts… is a test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.