It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

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.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

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?

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Nobody is perfect. I don't think it's the most scathing indictment of anybody. It's pretty innocuous. [Miral] is just the story of one family and one girl, living in that part of the world, and that's what goes on over there. I thought that maybe it would be informative and useful for people to know more about it.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.