Survival often feels like an indignity.

We are such skeptics that we find it difficult to believe in God and angels and a spiritual afterlife, but a moment of fear makes our spirit so vulnerable that it allows us to believe in something beyond that.

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

I think that is the ultimate cowardice, when someone makes your choices for you in an institutional way. And you just say, "Well, I have no other option."

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen

We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.