I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

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.

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.

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.

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