Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.

Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].