Art Is About Paying Attention.

As A New Yorker, I'm Someone Who Lives On An Island And Looks Across To America.

Audiences, Whether They're Seeing A Film Or A Reading Or Whatever It Is, A Concert, They Decide Very Quickly What Kind Of Show It Is, And Then They Judge It. They Judge The Rest Of The Thing By Whether It Conforms To Their Rules For What A Good Symphony Orchestra Would Be.

I See And Write Things First As An Artist, Second As A Woman, And Third As A New Yorker. All Three Have Built-in Perspectives That Aren't Neutral.

Gut Level Is A Good Level To Deal With Life, And For Me, I Have To Say That Buddhism Makes Sense For Me Because It's How I'm An Artist.

Why Do You Have To Translate And Decode Things? Just Let The Image Be. It Will Have A Special Kind Of Reality That It Won't Once It's Decoded.