It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles. . . you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.
Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.
I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.
One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.