My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live...

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

I love Jay-Z.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu,...

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of...

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change your ideas, change your face, you know?

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from...

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.