I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
I don't like the term 'voice-over.
Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.
There was a race that I was running in Mexico City and I was the only high school athlete running against grown women. It was a professional race, but I ended up winning. That was kind of a turning point for me where I felt like, "Okay, I'm pretty good at this and there's a possibility for this to be a career for me. " That was a defining moment for me.