The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

I try to find inspiration in books, paintings, illustrations and the one thing I try to avoid is just being inspired by other movies, because then you just are talking about movies in movies. I try to talk about movies that are culturally and spiritually a little more diverse.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

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

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.