When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.