The business side of film has goofed up so many things but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if as I always say you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

The best thing commercially which is the worst artistically by and large is the most successful.