What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.