Art depends on luck and talent.

All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.