Julian Schnabel: “My parents knew nothing about art, and I came out of it.”

We met painter, sculptor, art promoter and film director Julian Schnabel during the last Venice Film Festival in September: a classic larger-than-life figure, he debuted as a film director in 1996 with Basquiat – the legendary graffiti artist supported and promoted by the same Schnabel – followed by Before Night Falls, The Butterfly and the Bell, and Van Gogh - At Eternity’s Gate, each of them critically  acclaimed. Schnabel was in Venice, this time just as a father, to accompany and support his son Olmo’s directorial debut, Pet Shop Days.