“We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects.”

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.

It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.

In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn’t make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.

As government expands, liberty contracts.