The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.

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 guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.