Peter Wright

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.