British drama can compete with America creatively. But the two systems are very different.
I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.
When you're jealous, especially of someone else's art or creations you automatically put up these selfish walls that reinforce your stupid ideas. It's hard to pull those walls down and look at what you're hiding. Look at your own weakness and realize that the jealousy came from knowing that you're intimidated by someone else's work, and that when you compare it to your own, you fall short.
Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.
A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
When I have been told that my films remind people of Ozu, I have never been too convinced.
English literature is a flying fish.
It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.
If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.
I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.
I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.
