It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.
That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
