"If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind."

“[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

“Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.”

Source : "How we made - Napoleon". Interview with Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2013.

“Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.”

“I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.”

“Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.”

“Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket.”

“I used to say that pot took away from my rent, and now it pays it.”

“I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.”