You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

So the ideology was that use sounds as instruments as sounds on tape without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano but a sound with a form a development a life of its own.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

People are going to have their opinions. Whether it's good or bad, I don't really think about it either way.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.

My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

I also served on many government committees.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

Grit is not just simple elbow grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place work hard to improve upon a given interest and do it again and again.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.