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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

Cinema is an art form.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.