You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

If you can be that link to other people that came before you and the ones that come after, then you have to honor that link. If you are doing what somebody else tells you to do and you have success, it's horrible. And if you are doing what other people tell you to do and you fail, it's equally horrible.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

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

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films

I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.