I want to know about life! I want some real answers. . . " "Five. " "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!
I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.
I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.
But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.
It's pain that changes our lives.
I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.