When art is really great, it's really powerful, can really do something to you, make you feel more alive and make you feel more connected to something. If you don't feel like that when you do it, and you just make a movie to make money, that would be pretty boring to me. I just wouldn't do it. That would be like sitting in an office, which I don't want to do.

I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

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

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.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.