Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit and are being impacted by gasoline prices food distribution businesses chemical business.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind and I guess in reading the things that were given to me I reacted as you guys saw me you know.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star as far as looks and attitude kind of like Susan Hayward.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude which our eye perceives which art reproduces and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

The forties seventies and the nineties when money was scarce were great periods when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

I get in trouble when I say things like 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.