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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio to get new ideas. You have to get new ideas from life, not from the studio. Then you go to the studio to realize the idea.

If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

Studios were just run differently. There really was a head of a studio. There were people who loved their studios. Who worked for their studios and were loaned out to other people and everybody sort of got a piece. Well now there's a handful now.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.