You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.