I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.