(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.

You will not be rewarded for your good nature. Your good nature is your reward.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.