I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage