Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
I think it is important for us as teachers to offer a huge spread of courses from Plato, the deadest white male around, to very modern philosophy.
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
We all teach students a massive body of material to get some sort of mastery of it, pass a judgement, and defend it.
You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.
A lot of the stuff that I've done is just really broad comedy and the characters are not that bright. Obviously with the 'American Pie' films and 'Road Trip,' my guys were kind of dicks. These guys in 'Dukes' are good guys.
And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
At first, before Johnny came on and I agreed to do it and I was like, 'I just wanted to learn how to drive the car.'
Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.
I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.
I had actually, at that point, been working with a guy back in L.A. just training with a car; not the General Lee, but other cars.
I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.
I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.
I think it's amazing to see this action with a car that everybody's so familiar with, in the backwoods and on dirt roads and stuff.
I thought it could make a really cool movie set in the South about this family. People are really familiar with these characters.
I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable.
I thought, it would just be cool if Johnny and me do this right. The two of us would be a lot of fun and really crazy.
It's not tongue-in-cheek; they expressed to me that they wanted it to be in the tone of 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'The Blues Brothers' and stuff with more of a 'southern rock cool.' I though that'd be cool.
So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.
This whole experience has been probably the best I've ever had, certainly the most fun I've ever had. Pretty laid back.
We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible.
We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do.
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