The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

Is perception equivalent to existence?