The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

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.

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.