Creativity

I had to substitute money with creativity and that's what made all the difference. I had to make a movie in a way that broke the traditional mold and learn not to be a slave to tradition.

You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world, equal to but distinct from scientific and conceptual methods.

The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

Following that dream, listening to that little voice, does not guarantee success. Luck is an ingredient not to be overlooked.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life — music, paintings, theater, stains and sunsets.

Insist that we support science and the arts, especially the arts. They have nothing to do with the actual defense of our country — they just make our country worth defending.

You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human without wealth, without domination over others, without reckless arrogance, without fear of others unlike you.

I am a teller of stories and therefore an optimist, a believer in the ethical bend of the human heart, a believer in the mind's disgust with fraud and its appetite for truth, a believer in the ferocity of beauty. So, from my point of view, I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

We live to commune. We live to create. Our enduring biological and spiritual drive is to create, to live in the act of becoming. It is not a choice. It is our experience of our existence.