You must plan to be spontaneous.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.