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

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.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

I lived through crises. September 11 is obviously the biggest one that I've lived through.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.