He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are taken out of context and how we're forced to view them as objects, as relics, as sculpture- static. But what's interesting is what it allows me to do in my head in terms of imagining what the possibilities are or imagining the role in which they played within a particular culture which I'm fascinated by.

I am the captain of my pain.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.