I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

Live as if life is for loving and giving.

Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin.

We have the power to make things new again. To project American strength again, to get our economy going again.

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.