I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to me. I enjoy it. I am very confident in my work.

Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.