I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.

But I don't think of any particular viewer in mind other than myself.

I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area its like coming home for me.

I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us and the result is misery and unemployment.

The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale.

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.

When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

Even the gates of Hell shall stay closed when Ted Bundy and Charles Manson come a knocking for even Satan fears they would glory themselves above him.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Sometimes when youre drunk you can see better.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

As a mother would protect her only child with her life… cultivate a boundless love towards all beings.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

Everything about me is favored towards wrestling.

Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.