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 want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

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.

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 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.