You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.

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

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

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

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.