Julian Schnabel Quotes

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

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

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 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.

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

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

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.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.