Expressionist Quotes

I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. All they did was reduce his life to the big dramatic moments you could pick out of any biography. If that`s supposed to be a portrait of somebody, I just don`t get it. It`s so reductive. It just seems all wrong to me.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don`t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.