…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
Respond to others about your work with equanimity.
Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.
Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.
Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor. '
Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.
My life changed in a huge way. Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives.
90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?