Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Film and art are close together.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

Everything happens through relationships.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.