Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.