Creativity

“When you do these factory films, as I call them, these mainstream films, you try to improve in terms of logic, in terms of production, editing, acting, scriptwriting, in terms of all the aspects of filmmaking.”

“To resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor.”

“I think I was always meant to be an artist.”

“the creative treatment of actuality”

“I wasn’t an artist who was just sitting in his studio, painting and coming back.”

“In Tetris you try to build something, to put the order in the scales of random pieces.”

“The idea that the director pulls a performance, it’s not like that.”

“The invention of the game of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.”

“I invent everything in my painting. And I stylize whatever it was that I saw or felt.”

“When you're writing a story, it often feels less like you're doing architecture and more like you're doing excavation—we're just unearthing it.”

“If I knew where the good songs came from I’d go there more often.”

“The filmmaking comes from God.”

“Drawing is the connecting tissue in my practice, a thinking tool that I use to align my art with poetry.”

“My main talent is turning trauma into something that looks showbizzy.”

““...veo cómo podré sobresalir entre artistas nuevos fácilmente porque tengo más sentido de la composición y el color que la mayoría de ellos.””

“I just think it’s part of storytelling.”

“I still haven’t written my best song.”

“When you sit with your pen, every year of your life is right there, wired into the communication between your brain and your writing hand.”