I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
“The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.”