I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord.

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.