I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.
I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.
I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.