“I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ...” — Mark Bradford Quote

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

When you're as tall as I am, you have no public privacy. People are constantly coming up and talking to you. Constantly. You have one of two ways to go: you engage with people, or you become really bitter. I choose to engage.

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

My friend's therapist once asked her, 'Why don't you make yourself a meal and plate it like you would for a guest?' And that stuck with me because I usually just eat out of whatever plastic container is around.