You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.