The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can’t like it.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.