“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.”

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”

“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”

“Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.”

“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”

“Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.”

“I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.”