It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

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