In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Returnless risk is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.

Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.

My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.