For art to exist for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Architecture is involved with the world but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work like any art.
I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want - but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.
There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.
At the time 1980 people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear resentment and anger.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg making home movies as a teenager either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
I've had four amazing men in my life very strong powerful wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.
I always say I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans like up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
I think being on a TV show is amazing but also people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
In fact it is amazing how much European films - Italian French German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family a typical family with drama in certain areas and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people then I go home to a really great farm though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.
America is not just a democracy it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations politics is not merely a clash of interests but a clash of dreams.