We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good
Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.
Every day I have to be awake to escape. . . . The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.
I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . . ] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.