“We really make photographs; we don’t take them. I was trying to get away from the ‘caught moment,’ because Robert Frank and those photographers...
“Writing is like shaping some clay. It’s the act of shaping it that’s sort of fascinating. You don’t think, is this going to be just...
“2016 was a story of political media completely missing the country. That has been my driver of the reason to do bottom-up reporting. By the time I...
“The scary thing is—when you change, you’re ripping out a whole part of yourself, and you don’t know what goes in there. You’ve got to start filling...
“Writing forever, I would write screenplays and realize they were about other movies. I’d get inspired and write these cool sequences, but the...
“America is beautiful because it’s full of all kinds of people. In Taste the Nation, I hope that I give as balanced a picture of these stories...
“Life goes on, and you have to be grateful that it all existed. That you were able to make your dreams real. I’ll always be fortunate.” -Carol...
“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and...
“Over the past few months, many people have come up to me and told me that our movie changed their life, and they start crying. That’s the most...
“In spite of what my parents went through, they were also very lucky. They carry the guilt of their parents’ humble beginnings. It’s a generational...
Last fall, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we turned to the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In the aftermath of that fateful day...
“People often say being an ambitious artist is being a dogged artist. I am not an ‘at any cost’ person; I care about the cost. I was prolific in my...
“We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...
“When people believe that more is possible, they are more likely to participate. And when they are aggrieved—when they know that someone is trying to...
“Performance art has this incredible power of realization of so many things. It is difficult to maintain because it is immaterial; it is time-based...
“White supremacy is not a mystery. To act like we don’t know what it looks like when it rams the door of a federal building is not only...
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