Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.
In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?
I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.
In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.
In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.