The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.