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I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.