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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over."
"When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over."
"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."
"But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something."
"If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that."
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