I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Hollywood is high school with money.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good

In the eyes of my dog, I'm a man.