I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

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.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.