I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
My compulsion is to create things.
I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up. . . black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.
One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day.