Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."

If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.