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Boyle: “We are animals”Mr. Brainwash: “If I believe it, it’s art for me”Marco Brambilla: “There’s too much going on”Kenneth Branagh: “It’s not such a great leap”Jeff Bridges: “Life is my guru”Adrien Brody: “I don’t have an option”AA Bronson: “I’m as fearless as I ever was”The Chemical Brothers: “That feeling lives with you”Thom Browne: “You need to have conviction”Carla Bruni: “The real matter is the people you love”Manu Buffara: “Simple things reconnect us with life”Steve Buscemi: “I don’t really think about emotions”David Byrne: “We did okay”Nicolas Cage: “Sometimes it’s good to be hated”Michael Caine: “I don’t get the girl, I get the part”James Cameron: “All my movies are love stories”Helen Cammock: “I want to change whose stories are heard”Jane Campion: “It has to go beyond”Coco Capitán: “We have gone to the other extreme”Steve Carell: “It’s different every time”Jim Carrey: “There is no me”Ruth E. Carter: “We have to make it come to life”Vincent Cassel: “Keep the mystery alive”Maurizio Cattelan: “Show them life”Nick Cave: “I don’t think that people want to be like me”Henry Cavill: “We don’t play a perfect game at all times”Claude Chabrol: “There’s nothing original in my movies”Don Cheadle: “Movies are not attempting to educate you”Judy Chicago: “Get used to it!”David Chipperfield: “There is no defining moment”Christo: “It’s not a profession, it’s existence”Ferdinando Cito Filomarino: “It was a different type of mission”Larry Clark: “Why can’t you show everything?”Francesco Clemente: “Making art is to time-travel”Glenn Close: “My passion is exactly the same”Jarvis Cocker: “It’s like seeing into the future”Chris Cole: “Skateboarding had it all”Petra Collins: “I know what it’s like to be there”Olivia Colman: “It will always be a mystery”Nina Compton: “That’s the way to bridge the gap”Michel Comte: “We need to listen to nature”Claudia Comte: “It’s never-ending once you start”Bill Conti: “I’m writing it for emotional reaction”Thomas Joshua Cooper: “Preparation is all you can do”Sofia Coppola: “Film is our family business”Anton Corbijn: “My life is crazy, but it’s real love”Elvis Costello: “I didn’t have some big blueprint”Marion Cotillard: “My dream was simple”Wayne Coyne: “You get to be a bigger version of yourself”Bryan Cranston: “I want to slow it down”Russell Crowe: “I have a moral standard of my own”Benedict Cumberbatch: “Your mind has the power to shape reality”Denzel Curry: “I have no regrets”Willem Dafoe: “You are not driving it”Matt Damon: “These types of movies are going away”Hélène Darroze: “Good taste is in my DNA”Clive Davis: “You’ve got to earn it”Amalia Dayan and Daniella Luxembourg: “It’s a personal quest”Brian De Palma: “You have to battle”Richard Deacon: “A stop, but not a finish”Andreas Deja: “Realism is the tough part”Guillermo del Toro: “I am not meta, I am really earnest”Julie Delpy: “People should care about who they are”Thomas Demand: “Aesthetics are inevitable”Judi Dench: “I have an irrational fear of boredom”Catherine Deneuve: “You don’t tell the same stories”Bruce Dern: “You’ve got to keep accelerating”Laura Dern: “We have to evolve together”Danny DeVito: “You’ve gotta go in all the way”Agyness Deyn: “I’ve mellowed out”Leonardo DiCaprio: “I am a lot calmer now”Matt Dillon: “There’s always something to look for”Peter Dinklage: “The fight is all”Tara Donovan: “I don’t map it at all”Garance Doré: “I want to keep the distance”David Doubilet: “My favorite picture is the one I haven’t taken”Michael Douglas: “Youth is wasted on the young”Richard Dreyfuss: “I have achieved all my dreams”Mark Duplass: “It’s a dog fight”Sylvia Earle: “Everything on earth connects”Bret Easton Ellis: “You can’t lie anymore”Alexander Ebert: “I was constantly in trouble”Joel Edgerton: “I create my freedom around that”Ludovico Einaudi: “It was like a ritual”Jesse Eisenberg: “I’m not being tricked”Chiwetel Ejiofor: “You’ve got to swing for the rafters”Idris Elba: “The process is like a jigsaw puzzle”Danny Elfman: “I’m wired in this way”Olafur Eliasson: “Things go wrong and we celebrate it”Marianne Elliott: “You’re there to change lives”Tracee Ellis Ross: “Why not do it in a big way?”Paloma Elsesser: “I’m living less fearfully”Kean Etro: “We are the outsiders”Sharon Eyal: “The story comes from inside the body”Colin Farrell: “I don’t think parenthood changes you”Abel Ferrara: “Does pain really teach you at all?”Will Ferrell: “I am kind of boring to me”Ralph Fiennes: “One’s vanity is always there”Colin Firth: “It sounds awfully spoiled, but I’ll take it”Claudia Fleming: “I am out here on a limb”Peter Fonda: “I'll shoot first, right through the door.”Tom Ford: “I am really a loner after all”Francis Ford Coppola: “It’s a devastating decision”Ken Forkish: “It just drew me”Nicola Formichetti: “There will be a backlash”William Forsythe: “No one has any idea what really works”Jodie Foster: “We are in an era of identity searching”Nils Frahm: “Everything can be used for the music”Black Francis: “It doesn’t feel like anger”James Franco: “I do all my homework”Brendan Fraser: “I am not a stranger to that”Morgan Freeman: “Strive for pleasure and peace”Nelly Furtado: “Let’s pull the mask off now”Pierre Gagnaire: “We’re obsessed with the superficial”Ryan Gander: “It wants your attention”Gabriela Garcia: “There are pieces of me in everything”Gael García Bernal: “Growing up is such a gift”Andrew Garfield: “It’s a wound and a gift”Richard Gere: “We are all in this together”Ricky Gervais: “The truth is more devastating than a lie”Tavi Gevinson: “What is this exclusivity protecting?”Gilbert & George: “We don’t do art for the few”Terry Gilliam: “Things happen”Milton Glaser: “We’re all in it together”Ira Glass: “All you can do is make work”Susan Goldberg: “It’s about doing the right thing”Jeff Goldblum: “I can do this in a hundred ways”Will Goldfarb: “You’re just supposed to like it”Noah Goldstein: “I’ve always trusted my taste”Michel Gondry: “I believe in Utopia”Chilly Gonzales: “I try to pull the curtain back”Randall Goosby: “It’s not just notes on a page”Ludwig Göransson: “I’m building a puzzle”Douglas Gordon: “You pull yourself up and you push it out”Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “It hasn’t happened yet”Denise Gough: “It feels like I need to hold back”Craig Green: “Keep making that weird stuff”Grimes: “I want to be the best”Katharina Grosse: “I don’t see limits”Luca Guadagnino: “I try to surrender to my evidences”Rebecca Hall: “People are still people”Laird Hamilton: “You should be scared”Albert Hammond Jr.: “I loved pushing that boundary”Woody Harrelson: “I have hypnotized myself”Robert Harris: “Power is of endless interest”Sam Harris: “Mindfulness is being divorced from its real potential”Debbie Harry: “The music speaks for itself”Mona Hatoum: “It’s about shattering the familiar”Tony Hawk: “Finally they figured it out!”Ethan Hawke: “I wonder if I’m up to the task”Richie Hawtin: “I’m interested in man and machine”Todd Haynes: “You have to be alone to be inspired”Matty Healy: “Nostalgia is beautiful”Pierre Hermé: “It comes from curiosity”Werner Herzog: “Trust in my wild fantasies”Sheila Heti: “My life only changes when a book is done”Emile Hirsch: “That’s why I am the way I am”Thomas Hirschhorn: “It is an emancipatory gesture”Thomas Hoepker: “No rehearsal, just one click”Yngve Holen: “You can get what you want out of it”Alex Honnold: “I’ve always been afraid of death”Peter Hook: “A magic that people can tune in to”Anthony Hopkins: “I see the lines, but I don’t care”Dennis Hopper: “I thought I had power”Roni Horn: “There’s nothing until there’s something”Nick Hornby: “You can wait forever for the muse”Viktor & Rolf: “There's very little real glamour”Francine Houben: “What’s most important is the senses”Margaret Howell: “The clothes become a part of you”Fana Hues: “It feels like completion”Daniel Humm: “This is enough”Charlie Hunnam: “I worry that I’ll get devoured”John Hurt: “There’s not much work in it”Armando Iannucci: “There are no rules anymore”Yoshihiro Imai: “Ego is not edible”Anne Imhof: “You get bolder over time”Alejandro Iñárritu: “There is no way you can stop”Bjarke Ingels: “What is the standard solution not doing?”Space Invader: “You own the city”Kazuo Ishiguro: “I’ll take as long as I need”Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson: “Money is freedom”Mick Jagger: “Excess was the order of the day”LeBron James: “The fame never got to me”Lily James: “You’re at the mercy of circumstance”Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”Margo Jefferson: “Criticism demands authority”Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Does it speak simply and directly?”Rashid Johnson: “I can do this?”Dwayne Johnson: “It comes with the game”Allen Jones: “There’s nothing you can do”Bong Joon-ho: “The fear is hard to get rid of”Miranda July: “I am making more room in the world”Daniel Kaluuya: “Making it is not impossible”Christopher Kane: “You can’t just put your head down”Anish Kapoor: “I have nothing to say”Garry Kasparov: “There’s no more room for bluffs”Mary Katrantzou: “It’s impossible not to doubt”Charlie Kaufman: “I don’t believe in rules”Francis Kéré: “There’s an element of fantasy”Alicia Keys: “It can’t be held back anymore”Nicole Kidman: “You choose the path”Lily King: “You don’t know until you start writing”Ben Kingsley: “I love the now, it is all we have”Vanessa Kirby: “Empathy is the job for an actor”Nicholas Kirkwood: “You have to know your craft”Ragnar Kjartansson: “I know how to hide my tracks”Calvin Klein: “I like the element of surprise”Kevin Kline: “It’s a different sort of thrill”Nick Knight: “I commit with my heart and soul”Keira Knightley: “It’s the joy of growing up”Hannelore Knuts: “This was only the introduction”Studio KO: “As long as it feels honest”Diane Kruger: “Who needs to be told what to think?”Mila Kunis: “They build you up just to knock you down”Ellen Kuras: “I’ve always worked in my mind’s eye”Rachel Kushner: “There’s this lens over life”Lianne La Havas: “I don’t do it for anybody else”David LaChapelle: “Everything was dramatic”Brigitte Lacombe: “My entire life has been my work”Deborah Landau: “The familiar is made strange again”Jon Landau: “I can’t do anything unless I’m all in”Deborah Landis: “Costumes are talismans”Caleb Landry Jones: “Acting will always be strange to me”Diane Lane: “I try not to draw attention to myself”Frank Langella: “I couldn’t look a girl in the eye”Brie Larson: “I hope my work makes people feel less alone”Jude Law: “It's not you”Ang Lee: “No one can see what’s coming”Spike Lee: “I’m not a quitter”Dennis Lehane: “It’s a question of interest”Yoann Lemoine: “I’m not there yet”Melissa Leo: “Acting has given me a purpose”Pía León: “It’s a session of gratitude for the earth”Sugar Ray Leonard: “Whatever is needed to win, I will do that”Jonathan Lethem: “Be a dark horse!”Jared Leto: “Every film has changed my life”Dominique Lévy: “You need to constantly refill”Matthew Libatique: “That’s not lost on me”Daniel Libeskind: “I never had a goal”Carol Lim & Humberto Leon: “It’s all work and all fun”Peter Lindbergh: “Beauty has nothing to do with youth”Jan Lisiecki: “The music speaks for itself”Robert Longo: “I went back to the beginning”Flying Lotus: “Music wasn’t a reality for me”Liza Lou: “Survival is at the core of it”Maja Lunde: “I never start with a message”David Lynch: “Stories should have the suffering”Winy Maas: “Loyalty has its limits”Seth MacFarlane: “There’s room for all”George MacKay: “You can’t dream up something you haven’t felt”Tomas Maier: “It shouldn’t be about the product”Philipp Mainzer: “It just depends on how you use it”Rami Malek: “It was daunting to live up to that”John Malkovich: “I am not in any hurry”Frédéric Malle: “Something had to change”Francis Mallmann: “Human beings need contradictions”Dieuveil Malonga: “Food has no borders”Shirley Manson: “I’m enough for me”Federico Marchetti: “You cannot be a follower”Johnny Marr: “Who cares about authentic?”Yann Martel: “You have to open yourself”Stacy Martin: “The film saves me”Nick Mason: “No one owes anyone anything”Marlee Matlin: “That’s what keeps me going”Thom Mayne: “They want you to be left or right”James McAvoy: “I don’t feel entitled”Steve McCurry: “It’s like hitting a drum”Ryan McGinley: “I am just so fascinated by the body”Wayne McGregor: “I see beauty in the dysfunctional”Ian McKellen: “The journey goes on”Steve McQueen: “It’s about what’s right, not what fits”Lubomyr Melnyk: “It has to be lived”Sam Mendes: “No one is owed anything”Alan Menken: “Always be in love with the process”James Mercer: “Everyone was too cool to care”Joel Meyerowitz: “You have to let go of something”Benjamin Millepied: “It’s not a matter of perfection”Sienna Miller: “It’s always a dilemma”Jeff Mills: “You’re only limited by your imagination”Angela Missoni: “You cannot live in the past”Robert Montgomery: “I tend to like the pathetic”Julianne Moore: “We want to feel something”Saad Moosajee: “You have to resonate with it”Erdem Moralioglu: “She’s so many different people”Giorgio Moroder: “I was always interested in the hits”Sarah Morris: “There is no outside”Viggo Mortensen: “Experience should free you”Benjamin Moser: “What is too much experience?”Elisabeth Moss: “Truth is stranger than fiction”Nico Muhly: “Pick your battles”Róisín Murphy: “Everything became about music”Bill Murray: “It’s more intake than output”Ebecho Muslimova: “Making art is not a pleasant feeling”Yukimi Nagano: “I don’t feel any pressure”Ohad Naharin: “What is this something else?”Niki Nakayama: “Everything about me knows it”Daisuke Nakazawa: “You need to work for what you want”The National: “At peace with the darkness”Liam Neeson: “I created my own luck”Shirin Neshat: “You can’t demystify a myth”David Newman: “You’re bonded to it”Jack Nicholson: “I put on a good show”Christoph Niemann: “I don’t need a big idea”Bill Nighy: “If everybody laughs, job done”Magnus Nilsson: “It was something that I always knew”Edward Norton: “It’s about balance”Lupita Nyong’o: “I have to transform who I am”Stewart O’Nan: “It’s not just dots on a page”Hans Ulrich Obrist: “I believe in generosity as a medium”Leslie Odom Jr.: “We have to make room for all of it”Nick Offerman: “I have a pugilist in me”Elizabeth Olsen: “I just had to step it up”Rita Ora: “I didn't have the answers”William Orbit: “I’m absolutely open”Gabriel Orozco: “I try to be disappointing”Yotam Ottolenghi: “I am more of a conductor”Rick Owens: “I never had that much to lose”Genesis Owusu: “I’ve always known who I am”David Oyelowo: “You are not the center”François Ozon: “I don't suffer”Al Pacino: “You can’t let your skin get too thick”Trevor Paglen: “Your job is to learn how to see”Chuck Palahniuk: “You can’t just be a spectator”Dennis Paphitis: “Life without some excess, forget it”Arlo Parks: “It feels like what I’m meant to do”Martin Parr: “I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind”Robert Pattinson: “Everyone wants you to be so vanilla”Sarah Paulson: “It’s the way you come up”Alexander Payne: “I was far from the most talented”Guy Pearce: “Where’s my conviction?”Tiler Peck: “I’ve always been a storyteller”Pelé: “My father and my mother closed the machine”César Pelli: “One aspires for the sky”Sean Penn: “I wouldn’t trade it for anything”Willo Perron: “I never wanted to be very singular”Gaetano Pesce: “The future is a beautiful time”David J. Peterson: “Does it fit the culture?”Elizabeth Peyton: “History is contained within people”Julia Peyton-Jones: “You need that virtuous circle”Wally Pfister: “I had to shift to storytelling”Anne-Sophie Pic: “I faced the world of cuisine alone”Stefano Pilati: “I used to divide people”Freida Pinto: “If you're bothered, change the channel”Michael Pitt: “Don’t give yourself an out”Gary Player: “I have no intention of slowing down”Robert Polidori: “Why is there a line?”Michael Pollan: “We vote with our forks”Sarah Polley: “It felt so revolutionary”Sergei Polunin: “It’s like being in the army”Alex Prager: “The idea is more important than anything”Chris Pratt: “I’m not going to freak out”Antoine Predock: “You keep the doorway open”Rodrigo Prieto: “It’s all about emphasizing emotions”Gareth Pugh: “I like that I feel out of place”Pusha T: “People can hear passion”Zachary Quinto: “I have a different journey”Robert Rabensteiner: “It’s all related to dreams”Daniel Radcliffe: “I’ve released a lot of the pressure”Tahar Rahim: “Why recreate when you can create?”Sam Raimi: “It’s done in earnestness”Mel Ramos: “Why not be naked in public?”Charlotte Rampling: “You have to be brave”Natacha Ramsay-Levi: “You have to push things further”Joshua Ramus: “I’m not saying that it’s easy”Tim Raue: “I never saw myself as a talented chef”John C. Reilly: “We all owe a debt”Rob Reiner: “I believe in it”Robert Richardson: “I try to be a chameleon”Max Richter: “I like to get to the essentials”Eric Ripert: “Anger is a weakness”Craig Roberts: “Nobody knows what’s going on”Mick Rock: “I blame the name”Sam Rockwell: “It’s just being there for the first time”Sonny Rollins: “I’m part of the universal spirit”Alison Roman: “There’s no assignment”Mark Ronson: “I’m very aware of my place in music”Jon Ronson: “I’m interested in hypocrisy”Thaddaeus Ropac: “People are hungry for new art”Ana Roš: “It has to do with our own personality”Isabella Rossellini: “Things will come back”Renzo Rosso: “We have gained respect”Eric Roth: “Screenwriting is a bastardized form of art”Tim Roth: “It was our turn now”Johnny Rotten: “I love chemical imbalances”Olivier Rousteing: “You fight through the night”Paolo Roversi: “My life is full of pictures I didn’t take”Norman Jean Roy: “The camera used to carry this mystique”Geoffrey Rush: “Why have we become this way?”Salman Rushdie: “The curse of an interesting life”Tom Sachs: “Consumerism was a ritual”Jonathan Safran Foer: “You have to waste a lot to have a little”Stefan Sagmeister: “Function alone is not doing it”Agustina San Martin: “I refuse to be one thing”Arturo Sandoval: “Focus on today”André Saraiva: “The night is not a time, it's a place”Susan Sarandon: “Let’s hope it changes”Richard Saul Wurman: “My world is a lattice”Peter Saville: “I never had to answer to anyone”Steve Schapiro: “It’s a question of how you see it”Ole Scheeren: “How can we break the mold?”Maisie Schloss: “It’s so deeply my aesthetic”Julian Schnabel: “I never thought of art as a career”Martin Schoeller: “I don’t think you can capture a soul”Paul Schrader: “That day is gone”Ian Schrager: “It was like a lightning bolt”Amy Schumer: “That’s all I can ask for”Jason Schwartzman: “I enter a weird mode”Ridley Scott: “You can't have a comfortable ride”Rodney Scott: “You’ve got to stay patient”Deborah L. Scott: “The heart of it is always the same”Kristin Scott Thomas: “You forget how much it hurts”Sean Scully: “The poet was always in me”David Sedaris: “What do I write about now?”Todd Selby: “Start your own thing”José Selgas and Lucía Cano: “There should be a why”Mark Seliger: “Let’s do something special”Adam Selman: “You’re not tied to your clothes”Philip Selway: “Allow yourself to be in the moment”Chloë Sevigny: “I am leaning towards mysticism”Michael Shannon: “There’s no reward other than knowledge”Thea Sharrock: “Deal with it and reflect on it afterwards”Chiharu Shiota: “The fear is necessary”David Shrigley: “There is room for everything”M. Night Shyamalan: “I’m who you want in there”Saniyya Sidney: “This is what I want to do”Newton Thomas Sigel: “I can close my eyes and see it”Sarah Silverman: “Usually I’m the idiot”J.K. Simmons: “Good writing makes me crazy”Gary Simmons: “You want to create questions”Raf Simons: “The process never stops”Stellan Skarsgård: “Yes Lars, I’ll be there”Patti Smith: “Rock 'n roll belongs to the people”Paul Smith: “I’m happy to talk to anybody”Kiki Smith: “I just try to follow it”Clare Smyth: “You’re always storing things”Steven Soderbergh: “I can’t reverse a trend”Hajime Sorayama: “Creating is my freedom”Aaron Sorkin: “That takes quite an ego”Mario Sorrenti: “There has to be intimacy”Pete Souza: “You’re doing it every day, all day”Carla Sozzani: “You need generosity to do this”Erik Spiekermann: “A good concept will survive forever”Gunner Stahl: “You can tell if it’s real or not”Simon Starling: “The practice has its own momentum”Ralph Steadman: “The line becomes more aggressive”Gerhard Steidl: “I turn everything upside down”Pat Steir: “I avoid struggle”Oliver Stone: “I’m braced for disappointment”Emma Stone: “Anxiety in its essence is fear”Meryl Streep: “I'm not always happy”Thomas Struth: “Now you've made it”Dimore Studio: “We try and hit all of the senses”Hilary Swank: “You’ve got to trust your instincts”Sarah Sze: “How do we breathe life into objects?”Chaitanya Tamhane: “I want to find my own language”Quentin Tarantino: “It’s a corrupted cinema”Audrey Tautou: “Who is the artist?”Kiri Te Kanawa: “It’s coming from your heart”Juergen Teller: “You know when the work is good”Yann Tiersen: “Music is not language”Justin Timberlake: “Be in the moment”Liesl Tommy: “Let your instincts take over”Cosey Fanni Tutti: “It’s like a metamorphosis”Mike Tyson: “If I fought Mike Tyson I could beat him”Lars Ulrich: “So far, so good”Christine Vachon: “You have to have the stomach for it”Valentino: “I am somebody with taste, of course”Sumayya Vally: “Architecture is an assertion of who we are”Gus Van Sant: “You always want it to be different”Kris Van Assche: “You swim in order not to drown”Dries Van Noten: “I want to show reality”Ben van Berkel: “I want to stay experimental”Iris van Herpen: “I try to stretch the boundaries”Willy Vanderperre: “You have to constantly reinterpret”Axel Vervoordt: “I like evolution, not revolution”Stuart Vevers: “I enjoy a big shift”Ed Viesturs: “Push yourself to another level”Alicia Vikander: “You just work through it”Leo Villareal: “There’s no agenda”Lindsey Vonn: “Mind over matter”Eric Wahlforss: “We had nothing else”Rufus Wainwright: “I don’t preach”Taika Waititi: “No idea is final”Christopher Walken: “That’s it, it’s over”Andrew Kevin Walker: “It still gave me nightmares”Mark Wallinger: “A perfect mirror throws back everything”Christoph Waltz: “It has nothing to do with the job”Denzel Washington: “I don't think there is a system”John Waters: “Stop blaming your parents”Roger Waters: “We are on a knife’s edge”Albert Watson: “You never get that day back”Ari Wegner: “It’s a really connected experience”Lawrence Weiner: “There’s no secret in words”Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi: “Storytelling is what we do”Irvine Welsh: “Failure is more interesting”Wim Wenders: “Everything I loved I had to defend”Tony Wheeler: “I want to try somewhere different”Whitney White: “Just keep expanding”Colson Whitehead: “All our former selves are still there”Rachel Whiteread: “I can let anything happen”Olivia Wilde: “It lights you up”Maisie Williams: “I’ve learned to protect myself”Robert Wilson: “It’s okay to get lost”Owen Wilson: “You just go with it”Don Winslow: “I like being scorned”Andrew Wong: “Authenticity is fluid”Catherine Wood: “How can we inhabit the image?”Elijah Wood: “Every film has its own part to play”Robin Wright: “We’re always compromising”Edgar Wright: “It becomes a bit like alchemy”Joe Wright: “It’s a matter of feeling”Jason Wu: “Taste is in the eye of the beholder”Erwin Wurm: “It only exists at this one time”Rose Wylie: “If it works, it works”Yohji Yamamoto: “People have started wasting fashion”Ma Yansong: “It’s about the spirit behind it”Anton Yelchin: “There are no real answers”Sonya Yoncheva: “Art cannot be lost”Neil Young: “You have to break out of it”Charles Yu: “Reality is taking notes from fiction”Renée Zellweger: “I try to concentrate on something true”Chloé Zhao: “I call it the age of innocence”Hans Zimmer: “You are forever in that dream world”