There are things you do for the fun of doing them or to work or to hang with certain people. But the projects that I've invested myself in and cared about most deeply have absolutely been activated by a desire to chase something that I relate to, or that I see as having the potential to speak to someone else directly.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.