I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish holds within it the promise of a sensuousness that (without generalizing) at least I, as a human being, am drawn to.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.