Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ”

Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany. ”

From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays. ”

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write. ”

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. ”

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ”

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. ”

I am not super-attached to my career. ”

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. ”

What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person. ”