The Audience And I Have An Intimacy

If You Play Mark Twain And He's Not Funny, You Are Definitely Not Playing Mark Twain. That Was The Biggest Challenge, In Some Ways. Writing And Performing Jokes That Can Come Out Of That Brilliant Delivery System He Constructed: The Friendly, Avuncular Truth-teller.

My Father Was Raised In The Mountains Of New Mexico, And He Picked Cotton For A Dollar A Day. He Was Working For The Family From The Time He Was 7.

I'm Going To Put A Museum On My Ranch And People Keep Saying, "that's A Huge Idea." Yeah, It's Big, But Not Bigger Than The Average Big Movie. A Hundred Million Dollars In The Art World Is A Substantial Amount Of Cash To Do Anything. That's Maybe A Big Gallery's Total Sales For A Given Year.

I Think Death Is Just A Transition To Another State Of Consciousness.

Art Is A Way To Get Strength From Something That Is Life-affirming. It Can Be Quite Violent And Still Be Life-affirming.