What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light) and then over here (out of the light) it's an entirely different thing. The consciousness of this came to the Impressionists and I'm very interested in that.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

To become immortal, and then to die.