“I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don’t see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don’t want to play the same role twice.”

You don’t really have to dress a ton of actors. You don’t really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

To go to work every day for two years, that was life changing.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’

I think it’s very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

My work doesn’t speak about individuals (it’s not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West – which is where I live and what I understand.