But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues ' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

It has taken me years of struggle hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple beautiful sentence.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Oh yeah I mean every fighter has got be dedicated learn how to sacrifice know what the devotion is all about make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves they run about loose hungering for employment and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations which have all to do with making things already made is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Smiles come naturally to me but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

I don't watch television I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Becoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.