I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.