Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.