Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.
I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.
I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.
You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.
When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.