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

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?

Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

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

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.

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.