Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.

We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy part of having relationships with other people, of dealing with a person next to us. That's why we can all be in a room on our cell phones and not have to deal with one another.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.