I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.