I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish.

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Everything happens through relationships.

No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'

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.

Film and art are close together.

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.