Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.