I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

None of us are really that big of a deal in the world - but you are your dog's everything.

My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.