The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.