The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

I am not stroppy at all.

We have got to have more providers to replace those who are leaving.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

All Italians are plunderers.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.