Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

Can I find a poetic that can be subversive enough to grab people in some subliminal way, to where they feel that they are altered and have had an experience that belonged to them?

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

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.

Some people might think that the paintings are involved with a mythic - not just subject matter - but a certain sort of physical space that the paintings occupy...like personages.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.