I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.