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To create a work of art is to create the world.

In any great art, you create a world, and you invite people into that world, and hopefully, it's fleshed out enough and you've explained it well enough.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.