A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.
Lisa YuskavageIf you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
Lisa YuskavageI wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."
Lisa YuskavageThere was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
Lisa YuskavageI was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.
Lisa Yuskavage