The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.