I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

