When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I BELIEVE that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is DIFFERENT, and it's my POINT of VIEW. It's not ANYTHING formulaic.

My parents both flipped homes. A TYPICAL weekend for us was WALKING through model home units. I LOVED walking through interesting floor PLANS and seeing different design aesthetics.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of AMERICAN ART; he was the giant. No American CREATED so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

I love ART dealers. In some WAYS, they're my favorite PEOPLE in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, SUPPORT artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for FREE. Many are visionaries.

My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to THINGS. But the digital WORLD, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and COMMERCIALS. Even 'The Road' was a real learning curve for me with digital EFFECTS.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as BIG a record-seller as commonly IMAGINED, his importance was first AESTHETIC and social, and then as an INFLUENCE.

I think I probably have a FAIRLY signature STYLE - I tend to have a certain aesthetic - although I try to SHAKE that up, honestly.

It's FUNNY, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one EVER said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to MAKE SURE I was going to stay inside the box a little BIT.

There's only so much you can do until you get on SET and see the aesthetics of what you're DEALING with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the TRANSFER of energy between different actors.